Dover Community supports new Dutch Emmaus
St Martin's Emmaus in Dover has provided £5000 worth of wood-working machines and tools to a new Emmaus Community being set up in Feniks, near Eindhoven in the Netherlands. One of the Companions (as Emmaus residents are known) from Dover has moved to Feniks to help install the machines and set up a workshop to make and restore furniture. Another Companion is also planning to go and lend a hand.
Emmaus Feniks will eventually provide a home and work to 40 people, who will work on the collection and re-sale of donated goods to support themselves financially.
The Emmaus Community in Dover was set up in 1995 and is now home to 21 formerly homeless men and women. Now that the Community can support itself financially through the work of its residents, who collect donated furniture and household goods for re-sale at the on-site shop, it is committed to use its surplus to help set up other Emmaus Communities. In 2006, the Community donated £50,000 to help set up Emmaus in Sheffield.
Emmaus is a worldwide Movement, with 13 Communities in the UK and over 300 groups in more than 40 countries.
Published on 16th August, 2007
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