This past week, the St. Andrew’s Church Council decided to give the offering collected on Christmas Eve to Abu Zabaal, the last leper colony in Egypt. Donations such as this gift allow for timely treatments before the disease develops. For a recently BBC article published about the village, see http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8521577.stm.
Benevolence Fund Supports Abu Zabaal Leprosy Village
February 25, 2010 by St. Andrew's United Church of Cairo
