Belong to the Land Volunteers International volunteers are a much appreciated source of help, of witness, and of encouragement. For 1996, the last year for which figures have been summarized, volunteers came from Australia, Finland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Among them were 13 individual volunteers, the others in groups. Ages ranged from 20 to 70. Longer stays do occur but are infrequent.
Work done by volunteers includes general maintenance, construction, and office work.
Volunteers are provided with opportunities to meet and socialize with local Palestinian Moslem and Christian residents. Without the generous and dedicated help of volunteers, costs of construction and operations would increase. We welcome, with gratitude, all volunteers and hope to welcome more in the future. Vision for the future The diverse background of students at Prophet Elias High school and College indicates a partial realization of Father Chacour s dream to develop the much needed inter-religious relations, and to create an ethos of freedom of religion, not freedom from religion. This is being done at the school through the rejection of any preconceived ideas and of any prejudices or any vague entity image about the others .