Mrs. Adele Damian Hanania: assistant secretary Miss Julia Qustandi Baramki: assistant treasurer
with 12 members on the executive committee — and there are members of the working body whose number exceeds 74 ladies and young ladies. The shelter also has a large number of doctors and pharmacies to supply the needs of the sick and their medical relief.
The shelter has a large budget, most of it collected from the donations of charitable people, through the energy of the society's members, who watch over its welfare.
After the recent events in Palestine, the society of the Orthodox Shelter was compelled to enlarge its work, in view of the pressing need; so, besides the shelter at Beit Jala, it opened a maternity home in another building adjoining the shelter, in the service of the mothers who give birth in tents and in unhealthy surroundings... And who is more tender toward a woman than a woman, especially in this sacred stage of her life?!
In the city of Jerusalem the society provides medical treatment for everyone who needs it, and this treatment is entirely free, and has been so since the founding of the shelter — add to this the operations which the society is obliged to have performed at its own expense in the hospitals, whenever the need calls.
And thus we see that the Orthodox Shelter is a women's project, founded by a lady who herself still manages it with love and zeal, aided by a choice company of ladies and young ladies, who thereby carry out the noblest of missions. May God be their help, and prosper the endeavor of them all...
Some of the refugee children,
who come to the shelter for the morsel and the glass of milk
In spite of paralysis, he can read to his companion in the room, to dispel the loneliness of this forced confinement to bed
Before the catastrophe of Palestine:
The members of the society, on the feast day of the shelter's founding, at the home of Mrs. al-Yousef, one of the members