Soap making etc.

[Guest guest]

For 5 years I have corresponded with a friend in Baghdad, even before

the war started. She has a blog that chronicles the life for a family

living with war. http://afamilyinbaghdad.blogspot.com/ After she was

held up her car hijacked, family threatened with life, she had to flee

to Jordan, Amman, My friend is a highly educated woman( engineer for

water systems), . Her whole family is safe now, one boy studying in the

US ( he is on CNN sometimes) and she has been here a few times , even

talking to Congress people about the effects of the war on her people.

There is a huge crisis in Jordan of refugee's who can not find work,

widows to scramble to survive. My friend started an initiative for women

to help themselves with craft things to make , scrounging her richer

Iraqi friends to make small investment loans to the women who want to

start small businesses. There also is a group of woman from the US who

are helping, the project is called the Collateral Repair Project.

http://www.collateralrepairproject.org/

I suggested soap making. as one of the projects, but am poorly equipped

to be an advisor on this, having only made cold pour soap.Than of course

are the problems of language when it comes to ingredients and

measurements etc. However,I wondered if there would be someone on this

list who is interested in helping with that ., please contact me privately.

These woman and children are the innocents of this war and irregardless

of our political stance, they could need help to help themselves.

As someone's who grew up in the post WW2 years in Germany, I only too

well remember Care packets and what a welcome help they where.

C-M