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<div>My name is Lindsay Broockman. I was recently contacted by a family friend (Susan Driver) who volunteered several years ago with the Lebanese Welfare Association for the Handicapped to host a disabled Lebanese girl, Zeinab Abou Dallah, and her mother in Philadelphia while the girl received surgical care from an area hospital and recuperated. (Her case is actually mentioned directly on the LWAH website
<a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.lwah.org.lb/cases.html" target="_blank">http://www.lwah.org.lb/cases.html</a>.) </div>
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<div>The family continues to live in Lebanon, and Zeniab's uncle, Ahmad Alsaheli, was recently injured and lost his sight. The same organization, LWAH <a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="http://www.lwah.org.lb/home.html" target="_blank">
www.lwah.org.lb/home.html </a> has arranged for Mr. Alsaheli to receive surgery with the potential to restore his sight here in Boston with the Boston Eye Group. </div>
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<div>I was contacted by my family friend to see if I could help find a host family for him to stay with while he recuperates. Mr. Alsaheli is 25 and would be staying in the country for 2-4 months. Because he speaks little English and will need to negotiate many cultural differences, I thought he would be most comfortable staying with someone in the Boston Lebanese community.
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<div>If you could please forward this message to members of your group, I would most appreciate it. If anyone is interested, I will contact them directly with the contact information for the family as well as for Mr. Alsaheli's case manager for LWAH in Lebanon.
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<div>Thank you very much,</div><span class="sg">
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<div>Lindsay Broockman</div>
<div><a onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)" href="mailto:LBroockman@gmail.com" target="_blank">LBroockman@gmail.com</a></div>
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