Society
The Lebanon Project
July 23, 2015
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Inmates were only supplied with the basic necessities and many were kept in straitjackets or sedated with drugs. So von Heeremann had an idea: to start a summer camp for the inmates of homes for the disabled to give them a brief respite from their dreary everyday lives. A year later, he returned with 27 friends and support from the German association of the Order of Malta and put his plan into action: young volunteers provided severely disabled people with intensive and loving care in a camp in the Lebanese mountains. The Lebanon Project is now in its 15th year - and it just keeps on growing....