good morning and welcome to the garden of the deanery at canterbury cathedral on this morning of the first sunday of lent sunday the 6th of march welcome wherever you are in the world and the the great uh image of today of course is of our lord entering into the wilderness and the temptations to his vocation but we've come uh into a special part of the garden but first let us say that all our prayers will be undergirded by passionate prayer for the people of ukraine for whom the situation gets worse and worse and we think of them in our hearts and our minds and i know that you like us will be wanting to help in some way and feeling how can you help well in our reflection which we shall concentrate on ukraine uh in our reflection we will explore with you ways in which you might feel that you can help personally and put several links on the program this morning that you can just use to feel that you are making a difference however small as well as making a very large difference by our prayers right across the world so we've come this morning into the front garden of the deanery and to us a special place because this was an area that you remember we had the the pigs being good gardeners in and and turning the earth and doing as they got bigger rather more damage than that but they did a very good job with turning the earth and now you see that from that turned earth all kinds of little flowers are actually picking up and we're going to add to the possibility of that continuing by just putting up some more grass seed and also seeds of wild flowers which will come up later in the year if we do that this morning then we can watch them coming up but for the moment just puts this around so many of the flowers will be in colors of yellow and blue which of course are very significant colors for ukraine and for our prayers today but meanwhile we give thanks that the turned us down in this way can actually flower again the pigs turned the earth in an intentional way because we wanted them to be proper gardeners and give the earth an aerating what is happening in ukraine is also done in an intentional way with but with a very different mindset behind what is happening and the destruction there is catastrophic and yet at the same time we believe in heart and mind that from situations like that wilderness situations of other human intention then good can still come and flowers can still grow though this is a time of tense waiting and awful loss to the ukrainian people as they flee their homes and seek for help elsewhere and many of them of course have lost their lives and many been badly injured by all of this and the others are feeling desperate fear those who can't run away and find shelter somewhere else because some are too old to feel they can travel and others have decided they will stay it is their home and so we think of all those different situations all those different decisions which are being made by that uh nation which is facing this colossal cruelty and tragedy in its life and in which we are sharing it seems almost impossible now that just a few weeks ago and for the months of 2020 and 2021 our whole intention and as a world our whole focus was on the pandemic now in the last 14 days or so it's turned right around and the world has come together in a way which has caused nations to sink their differences and groups within nations to sink their differences and come together in this solidarity with the people of ukraine so let's begin our prayers on this sunday morning the first sunday of lent oh lord open our lips and our mouth shall proclaim your praise hear our voice o lord according to your faithful love according to your judgment give us life blessed are you god of compassion and mercy to you be praise and glory forever in the darkness of our sin your light breaks forth like the dawn and your healing springs up for deliverance as we rejoice in the gift of your saving help sustain us with your bountiful spirit and open our lips to sing your praise blessed be god father son and holy spirit blessed be god forever the night has passed and the day lies open before us let us pray with one heart and mind and as we rejoice in the gift of this new day so may the light of your presence o god set our hearts on fire with love for you now and forever amen our psalm on this sixth morning of the month is psalm 30 i will exalt you o lord because you have raised me up and have not let my foes triumph over me o lord my god i cried out to you and you have healed me you brought me up o lord from the dead you restored me to life from among those that go down to the pit sing to the lord you servants of his give thanks to his holy name for his wrath endures but the twinkling of an eye his favor for a lifetime heaviness may endure for a night but joy comes in the morning in my prosperity i said i shall never be moved you lord of your goodness have made my hill so strong and then you hid your face from me and i was utterly dismayed to you o lord i cried to the lord i made my supplication what prophet is there in my blood if i go down to the pit will the dust praise you or declare your faithfulness hear o lord and have mercy upon me o lord be my helper you have turned my morning into dancing you have put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness therefore my heart sings to you without ceasing o lord my god i will give you thanks forever so we turn to our lesson from the new testament it's a sunday morning and so we're not going back to the gospel of saint john but we are taking the sunday matins lesson from the gospel of saint luke and the eucharist as i said the the gospel lesson will be of the temptations in the wilderness but for us it's a different lesson it's in luke chapter five and we're beginning at verse 27. luke isn't specific about where this takes place we know it takes place in galilee and it's probable that it takes place in capernaum on the lakeside but we do have a named person unlike john whom jesus is calling verse 27 of chapter five of the gospel of saint luke after this jesus went out and saw a tax collector named levi sitting at the tax booth and he said to him follow me and leaving everything levi rose and followed jesus and levi made jesus a great feast in his house and there was a large company of tax collectors and others reclining at table with them but the pharisees and their scribes grumbled at the disciples of jesus saying why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners and jesus answered them those who are well have no need of a physician but those who are sick i have not come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance and they said to him the disciples of john the baptist fast often and offer prayers and so do the disciples of the pharisees but yours eat and drink and jesus said to them can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them and then they will fast in those days he also told them a parable no one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it on an old garment [Music] if they do they will tear the new and the peace from the new will not match the old and no one puts new wine into old wineskins if they do the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled and the skins will be destroyed but new wine must be put into fresh wineskins but no one after drinking old wine desires new for they say the old is good well let's look at that it's a very luke type passage it's full of pictures and also luke has a tidy mind and has material that he collects together so that at the end of the story of levi come a selection of parables and luke tanks one or two on so that they can fit into his gospel and they might read strangely particularly the last one we'll think about that in a moment or two but for the moment let's concentrate on what is happening jesus is walking along and he sees levi a tax collector hated by the jewish population there in galilee hated because of the reputation of tax collectors working for a foreign imperial power and also known most of them to be only out for their own gain and greed and they're not above shall we say cooking the books and making the figures much bigger and demanding more than the assessment and then taking that for themselves that's the reputation and we come across one or two of them like zacchaeus who actually have turned from this reputation and are wanting desperately to make amends but here's levi sitting at the tax desk some see him as the same person as matthew in st matthew's gospel it hardly matters the story is one of someone being called from all that they are doing but are clearly feeling uncomfortable doing and jesus goes along and says simply to levi follow me we might think that levi has listened to jesus teaching on the lakeside because that has already begun to happen and this chapter five of st luke is full of the call of early disciples simon and andrew and james and john are now here is another being called but a tax collector and what happens first well levi rises up it's a great it's a great verb in in the new testament for people deciding suddenly physically this is going to be the moment mary rose up and went to visit her cousin elizabeth or the disciples when they're called rise up to follow jesus it's a physical intention it's not just yes i'll make a mental intention and and perhaps say a prayer about that it's actually talking about the physicality of rising up and making a definite physical intention to follow he follows jesus but in order that he can show not only his gladness but share the good news that he has now not only in heart and mind and spirit but physically made a declaration that he's going to follow he calls his friends and asks jesus to come and be with them celebrating in his house does that remind you of anything that calling the friend calling the people he knows it reminds me so much of the woman of samaria whom we spent two of our mornings this week uh uh in the company of the woman of samaria and as she went back to become the messenger of the gospel to those in psycho and then bring them to jesus and they came and invited him to spend two days with them all of that you could also think of the royal official in st john's gospel whom we were talking about yesterday as he too on his way home meeting his servants then takes the gospel to all those around him his extended family his household and here is levi saying to jesus probably quite shyly would you come and allow me to give a party for my friends so that they can meet you and the son of man says of course and goes to sit with them and to celebrate and later he will use the image of this being like a wedding breakfast a new beginning and the bridegroom is there and all of that is happening and celebration is proper but of course those who consider themselves already righteous are sniffy about this and they say to jesus's disciples how can your master and the inferences see himself as a teacher of holy things and yet sit with people like this so that's the first point of attack and the disciples are are just about to answer but jesus overhears this and says but i didn't come to call the righteous for those who are well don't need a physician here's another image the luke is full of images as john is full of signs and here is luke putting that image which jesus used in his mouth at this point uh i didn't come to call the righteous but sinners to repentance and he could have said and here's the best image of all this child of god levi who today physically has made a new beginning and now is celebrating it so that his friends might also be encouraged to make a new beginning and he's asked me to sit amongst them it's what i came for and then they try another tack and that is how can you eat and drink and make merry when the the disciples of john the baptist are always fasting and in prayer and jesus then again turns to the image of the bridegroom which we've had in john's gospel at the same time and there's the image of the way in which this good news this gospel is being spread and levi now has become an evangelist the carrier of the evangel the good news and the first people he wants to give it to are those who are his friends some of them tax collectors some of them his family some of them friends from around and neighbors calling them in and as the early church always met together to break bread as a sign of how the gospel might be spread but that was only a sign for the sharing of meals and the sharing of the good news and gladness is obviously a part of the way that the church developed and it became a sign of joining together that feasting and the eucharist that thanksgiving meal which is a sign of every meal we have where we are carriers of the good news to those that we're sharing the meal with but jesus is keen to say that they mustn't be surprised for this is something quite new and this is where the word comes in and luke then takes jesus's examples of two new things which you wouldn't do you wouldn't take a new patch and sew it on an old garment and you wouldn't put new wine into old skins you'd put it into new skins so that it might mature and the skins would mature with it and no damage would be done because they're fresh skins and we've now planted new seed in this turned earth which is ready to receive the seed and will pop up like these little daffodils have already popped up and formed here a flowerbed of fresh growth and color to give gladness and celebration all of that and those images are good ones but lucas also tacked another image on the end and it can seem a public a puzzling image for it's another image that jesus has used no one after tasting matured wine is satisfied with the new wine which still has to mature and they say the ode is good well that fits in very well with all his statements about i didn't come to destroy the law and the prophets i came to fulfill and also it fits in with the way in which the gospel and the christian community grows in maturity and it fits in also with the wine which jesus at the wedding feast at cana of galilee in st john's gospel creates wine which is of the best but that which is of the best has still to develop within levi as a fresh wine skin a new vessel and so those images actually are not contradictory in any way at all they're simply different images and each image is really only a parable that's why the kingdom of god is given in parables it's like this image but it's also like that image and it can be said to be like that image and so here we have luke glorying in the images being given and it causes us to remember that at the last supper when jesus is saying farewell to his disciples before going to go out to face the absolute fulfillment of his own vocation he first breaks bread to celebrate wisdom and then he takes the cup and when he takes the cup and we rehearse these words always at the eucharist drink this all of you this is my blood of the new covenant said for you and for many for the forgiveness of sins the new covenant this is different this is fresh and it will mature and it will mature not just here in judea as they are then or in the the people with whom jesus has grown up it will mature across the nations of the whole world because i when i am lifted up we're back in sin john if i create this but i when i am lifted up will draw all peoples to myself and that lifting up on the cross and that newness of the new covenant is shown as the cup is raised above the altar the bread this is my body given for you and that sign of the physicality of jesus now being carried on by our own physical natures in wanting to do something which is new and carrying the gospel well then that takes us now to our main topic other than the reflection on the gospel of saint duke because we now have a situation across the world a really dangerous situation for the whole world but at the same time you and i are wanting desperately from our hearts which are burning for them and wanting to stand beside them wanting to do something for the people of ukraine and we see so many images on our screens veteran eye as he's done lots of rich astronomers have been in touch with all those who are working at the front line both in those nations which actually border ukraine and also working inside ukraine itself giving relief and giving help and what we have then is uh a way of ourselves contributing to that help and we shall show you uh during this reflection and uh we shall show you several times the way in which that help might be given but we will also include in that some of the harrowing scenes that have been sent us and photographs that have been sent us by those who are working for those organizations organizations like the ukrainian red cross and organizations also and i am a knight of the order of st john in in england here and also uh have been the sub dean of that order and so we have a special relationship with the sovereign order of malta the catholic order and they are very much on the ground and to the fore and so we've been in touch with them the order of malta is one of the oldest institutions in the west it was founded when freyja tum and submergence from amalfi opened a hospital in jerusalem to care for christian pilgrims around the year 1048 originally they were dedicated to helping the pilgrims of jerusalem and over time began to meet the health needs of the entire city it's a mission that still persists today [Music] it's an institution dedicated to giving testimony of the faith and doing its best to meet the needs of the sick in the most needy the order of malta has 13 500 men and women 80 000 volunteers and 20 000 employees distributed across all continents everyone has a vocation they need to share and develop a religious vocation because this is a catholic christian order the vocation of the mission is to be volunteers at different levels the order of malt is a sovereign entity equivalent to a state it can issue license plates to vehicles and have their own postal system it's organized by territories and its supreme authority is the grand master who has the rank of head of state and is a religious superior of the order the order malta maintains diplomatic relations with countries but does not defend the interests of a single region so it's able to work in many areas we do this through 2 000 humanitarian projects in 120 countries or five continents we do not defend a national state we only defend our patients who are in all parts of the world the order has a nobility in calvary tradition which is passed on from father to son there are three types of members the religious with vows of poverty chastity and obedience those who commit themselves to live with the promise of obedience and the lay members who live according to the principles of the church and the order to be a member today you need a solid theological formation and a noble heart for one to enter they must participate in one of their projects and be invited by a knight [Music] i now give the floor to the observer of the sovereign order of malta mr president mr secretary general distinguished representatives the sovereign order of malta a sovereign entity which provides global humanitarian aid with a special mission to serving the sick and the poor as observed with great sadness and regret the ongoing conflict which has impacted the lives of so many citizens of ukraine and which is currently created an unprecedented flow of refugees seeking peace and security across their nation's borders in eight years of conflict the order's embassy to ukraine has provided considerable support advice and material help to ukrainian citizens and to non-ukrainian residents of the country who are in need the current crisis is seeing multiple cities and towns attacked and bombed forcing families to leave their homes and seeking shelter elsewhere our representatives and ambassadors in the region report that while refugees have sufficient means to travel and find refuge on their own or enjoy dual citizenship with nearby nations the majority do not have the resources to provide for themselves without support u.n agencies predict that a potential refugee exodus of over 6 million persons might well be the outcome of this situation in the meanwhile many elderly people and those who are sick or disabled in some way are unable to escape the bombing and the stress that the accompanies civil and rest our concern obviously is for them as much as it is for those who have managed to live our staff and volunteers in major population centers within ukraine continue to provide assistance as much as is feasible given the ongoing security and safety problems this past weekend we held a summit of our regional ambassadors and aid providers under the auspices of our international relief agency's malteser international at that time we were able to review both the growing extent of the refugee crisis as well as the initiatives we are talking to support the growing swell of primarily mothers and children and a small number of senior citizens as of this morning it is estimated that almost 700 000 individuals have made the journey across the borders of poland slovakia romania hungary and moldavia and each day that the conflict continues the flow of anguished families will grow we have seen some nations go out of their way to welcome these individuals and to help them through the trauma our order of malta staff along the border with ukraine totals over 5 000 personnel with tens of thousands of volunteers doing everything from serving hot food and drink caring for the victims of injury and accident providing counseling and emotional support and assisting in securing of short-term accommodation volunteers from locations away from the border many of them from other countries representing churches and community groups have driven their cars and vans to provide transportation to new arrivals to ensure that they are given every opportunity to find a place to stay we are coordinating our activities with international aid agencies such as the red cross and the unhcr and are engaged in an international fundraising program to ensure that adequate resources continue to be available for the support and maintenance of those in need we are encouraged that the u.n human rights council in geneva will be holding a debate on human rights in ukraine today representatives from our government will be participating in this important discussion we appeal to nations of goodwill to appreciate the trauma experienced by all refugees in particular we appeal to countries who are receiving refugees to to extend the same welcome they are offering ukrainians to those of other national and ethnic groups who have been caught in this conflict and who are seeking security the offer of help and support must cross ethnic racial and cultural lines and not be tainted by discriminatory acts or attitudes this conflict in europe drives home the realization that the issues of internally displaced persons and the needs of refugees forced from their homes affects the whole world africa the middle east asia latin america and now europe thank you for your attention i thank the observer of the union and we thank james pavey the hospital for the sovereign order of malta in the united kingdom and also thank philippa leslie their communications officer for allowing us to show some of the work that they are doing because it is absolutely wonderful work and some of this will be shown to you [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] i can also speak about the work of the british red cross and charlotte megan has been in touch better has had conversations with her [Music] [Music] hello world we are volunteers of the ukrainian recruit society we are recording this video from ukraine that is currently affected by a large-scale armed conflict the whole country is under fire close to 100 people have died many more injuried their children among sam millions of people have to leave their homes looking for safe places for their families everyone needs our support at the moment in ukraine and red cross we have around 3 000 volunteers and for last today one thousand new volunteers come to join us at the moment the situation is in ukraine uh only worsening many more people will need to help of ukrainian red cross we're staying here and working for these people we will be very grateful to any support to the population of ukraine pass this message to those who should see it [Music] uh and so their work is being carried out in this rapidly changing situation and much of the work for the order of malta and all the relief agencies is being done in poland and slovakia and romania and hungary and moldova and lithuania and even in russia itself where there is crisis too for the people there and the ukraine crisis appeal is another one of these but we will show you how this might be something you can help with too the greatest need and this becomes obvious when you think about it the greatest need is for contributions of money because resources in carrying resources across the continent at this time and things need to be done speedily but these uh organizations of relief like the order of malta having strong ties with all those countries and the ukraine itself are actually present at stations of help for those coming out of ukraine at railway stations at bus stations at crossing points on borders 24 7 those volunteers are there and in ukraine itself teams of the maltese ukrainian which is the same order there providing hot meals to thousands of refugees stuck in traffic jams trying to get out traffic jams up to 30 kilometers long and they're needing help because their weight is proving both fearsome and causing desperate distress the maltese relief service is working also in la viv the that's a a unesco heritage site like here a beautiful city and the largest city in the western ukraine where people are fleeing too because the fighting is mostly going on in the eastern ukraine and along the black sea but that fighting they fear will follow them and they've come to live and yesterday alone 300 liters of hot soup was being given out 350 litres of hot tea and coffee 2 250 sandwiches and the elderly are turning to the order of malta and the other relief agencies for help there's an example given of fruits and salads and oil and tinned beans and sugar and hard cheese and hygiene products and granola and milk to 35 displaced children from a boarding school and at the same time 300 units of dried baby food to the stricken and beleaguered citizens of carcass which is now being uh bombed uh and and in grave danger stress and panic amongst the elderly with problems of blood pressure and yet in all this ambulances are there with those orders as they as they come and find those situations this is small compared with what is going on there but it is actually big and wonderful work and as you will see there are many things for you to just click onto and the images that we have been sent many of them are tragic but we need to know the situation so that our hearts may be moved to be not just in prayer companions standing beside them but also in resources standing beside them one of the ways that we can stand beside um the ukraine and feel near to them we showed you yesterday with the the way in which music can make you know the culture of a people and uh we are using music too and images from ukraine and as we pray this morning we have paused from time to time to consider those images we're in contact with a young lawyer volunteer dominic brichter from the order of malta in slovakia and he is at the front line too so conversations are happening across europe and we would say to you most of all however small the donation it's money that is required and uh later we'll show you a a video of kit harrington who is speaking for a collection of all the relief agencies but he he tells us and this is useful that 10 pounds can give essential hygiene uh resources to one person for a month 50 pounds gives blankets and sheltering tents a hundred pounds gives emergency food for two families for a month all those things and we are encouraged to give but at the same time if you don't have financial resources you can actually write to your members of parliament or write to those agencies across the world and i'm glad to think that agencies which have historic histories like the order of malta like the order of st john like so many of the red cross agencies and so many of these that we're listening this morning not from our own countries but from across the world so many of those much of the time are doing excellent work but it's not seen in this way now they are stretched to the limit and have come to the fore and we can help and in all this we are helping those in desperate need i didn't come said jesus to call those who are well but i came to call sinners to repentance and like a physician to help those in need and he's called levi to begin to do that and now he's speaking as he celebrates with them to lead by levi's friends in the same in the same way so we shall keep conversations open with people like philippa leslie of the order of malta and charlotte megan of the british red cross and dominic britta working in slovakia and we will also keep you informed as we go through so that you can give and be responsive in the the right way and that constant contact needs constant updates for the situation is changing constantly it's already 1.4 million ukrainians who have fled their country and it's thought it might be uh in the end as many as four million so we're praying for them uh and and that also uh we're praying for those who have chosen to stay but thinking of those who've who've left for the sake of their families and the sake of their children many of them have left people behind and they've certainly left their precious possessions behind so this is a situation which we haven't faced as a world um really in the what the consequences might be ever before but it's something that world leaders are embracing and we keep our prayers very very much uh constant for them as well as the people of ukraine so let's then turn to our prayers on this particular morning of the month and also this first sunday of lent we're praying in the anglican communion this morning for the anglican church of korea and the diocese on sundays is not giving us parishes to pray for so that can mean that we can pray more urgently for the people of ukraine and we pray of course for justin our archbishop and for rose bishop of dover and for emma bishop at lambeth as we always do day by day at this place bring your own prayers your own intentions first we'll say the prayer for this sunday and the week ahead then we'll say the prayer for every day of lent and then the our father together almighty god whose son jesus christ fasted 40 days in the wilderness and was tempted as we are yet without sin give us grace to discipline ourselves in obedience to your spirit and as you know our weakness so may we know your power to save through jesus christ our lord amen almighty and everlasting god you hate nothing that you have made and forgive the sins of all those who are penitent create and make in us new and contrite hearts that we worthily lamenting our sins and acknowledging our wretchedness may receive from you the god of all mercy perfect remission and forgiveness through jesus christ our lord amen so across the world and in different ways and different languages we say the words our savior taught us to say when we gather together our father who art in heaven hallowed be thy name thy kingdom come thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom the power and the glory forever and ever are men as we come to say our prayers i wanted to remember not just everything that is going on in ukraine but also this 6th of march is the anniversary in 1987 of the tragic and horrific sinking of the great uh roll-on roll-off ferry which was leaving zebruga to come to dover and many of the crew on board were from dover itself just just a few miles down the road from us and as the ferry left zebruga with its front doors still open the sea came in and capsized it within moments of leaving port and 193 passengers and crew lost their lives it was a tremendous tremendous tragedy for all of course but for this part of kent and dover and canterbury and the places around because people like flesher and his his uh brothers and sisters were at school with members of the the cruise families and a a terrible thing which had been caused by human failure in terms of safety regulations and therefore was that that awful sense first of all of of wanting to blame and then after that the necessity absolutely to make safety and a great uh a priority in what goes on but we remember that tragic day in our prayers as well as you remember the tragedy unfolding in ukraine itself what we're going to play flesh is going to to put on is a most beautiful uh song from ukraine sung by young people it's called a moonlight night and it's there so that you can just enter into the culture of that lovely land and see the young people who even now are fighting and dying for their country this was recorded a couple of years ago when none of this was expected so together we say our prayers this morning [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] foreign [Music] so [Music] foreign yes [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] as we watch that young choir and those two soloists singing we feel that they could so easily be our own king school pupils singing in a summer concert and yet as i said before these young people are now having to fight for or realize the destruction of their country and fight for its survival in great danger so we found that an immensely moving piece of music and piece of film christ give you grace to grow in holiness to deny yourself take up your cross daily and follow him and the blessing of god almighty the father the son and the holy spirit be upon you upon those whom you love and those whom you would pray for today and always i said that four million people um would be the immediate number of refugees fleeing the country that's an estimate other estimates are much much higher and displaced people right across ukraine obviously we can't tell so the need will continue to grow for resources and for us to stand beside them in so many different ways at the eucharist in the cathedral which i shall go to celebrate at 11 o'clock we shall begin with a a time of silence after the first hymn and then our choir will sing the ukrainian national anthem in order to stand in heart and mind besides the ukrainian people on this first sunday of lent so may god bless you all in your endeavors through lent and also in your prayers and the way in which you would want to support the ukrainian people at this time [Music] in an instant a million people in ukraine have been forced to flee fearing for their lives the very youngest unable to understand what is unfolding around them the desperate efforts to get them to safety continue they leave everything behind [Music] loved ones livelihoods and homes as people in ukraine have faced daily horrors we have watched on helplessly the number of displaced could reach four million many without shelter food and water we have a chance to make a difference now the fighting shelling and air strikes ukraine is now facing have had devastating consequences hundreds have been killed and injured including children and thousands more hiding underground terrified we were very scared of what would happen we didn't sleep we didn't eat we've been hungry for the past 72 hours disasters emergency committee charities and their local partners are right there but they urgently need your help to scale up their aid effort and support the increasing numbers in need you can donate online at dec dot org dot uk by calling 0370 60 60 900 by texting crisis to 70150 to give 10 pounds or by sending a check to this address just 10 pounds provides essential hygiene supplies for one displaced person for a month 50 pounds means blankets for 10 homeless people in freezing temperatures and 100 pounds can provide emergency food for two families for a whole month they need our help to survive please donate now [Music] you