The goal of the Sewing Project is to employ many men and women with full-time work sewing items.

The Sewing Project has contracts with several local businesses and an Israeli contractor for clothes. This Sewing Project is the only local Sewing Project, which produces for the local market. Additionally, the Sewing Project is producing T-shirts for the Andrew Ennabe Foundation in the United States of America..

Abouna is familiar with this type of project because Abouna worked for eight years as a sewer before he became a priest.

Twelve families are employed in the Sewing Project.

For a person to work in the Sewing Project , he / she must train for at least three months. Then, Abouna is hiring people with no sewing experience and paying them during this training time. This employee payment policy is expensive.

Abouna has several sewing contacts with local businesses because this Sewing Project is the only local Sewing Project, which produces for the local market.
The Sewing Project is limited by the number of sewing machines.

Usually, sewing products are only available locally. In special circumstances, Abouna Firas Khoury Diab will consider exporting sewing products . One negative in exporting sewing products is the high cost of transportation.

Exported sewing products are only available by donation. Exported sewing products are not for sale. No exported sewing product has been sold. Further, there are no plans to sell exported sewing products . One reason is the high cost of transportation would make the cost of the sewing products so high that a cost conscious person would buy from other vendor.

Donation information

Please consider a donation to purchase more sewing machines so that the Sewing Project can expand.
Please consider a donation so that the people training can continue to be paid during thier training time.
Donation Instructions

Thank you to the following for their generous donations.

• Andrew Ennabe Foundation.
  The Sewing Project was started / made possible by donations from the Andrew Ennabe Foundation beginning in Sept. 2007.
• Pilgrims of Ibillin
  • Pilgrims of Ibillin Newsletter Pilgrim's Post, July 2008, article on back cover (click on that page to download the .pdf file)
  • In February 2008, Pilgrims of Ibillin Board approved a $5,000 grant for the Sewing Project.
  • In early 2009, the Pilgrims of Ibillin's Board approved a grant for 1 sewing machine for the Sewing Project.

For more information, please contact the following.

• Abouna Firas Boutros Khoury Diab, cure_zab@yahoo.com
• Martha Liles, mliles@mliles.com

Clothes produced by the men working in the Sewing Project.

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The men working in the Sewing Project.

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A father working in the Sewing Project with his son.

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The men setting up the Sewing Project.

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These pictures were taken by Abouna Firas Khoury Diab and his family.