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Orange Charitable Support Should Be Highlighted

Article 5 ~ September 2006

Concerned as we must be with our own problems and the political uncertainties facing us we empathise with people affected by war either as combatants or in familial relationships with them. We have men and women soldiering in Iraq and Afganistan in fearsome situations which appear to be worsening daily and with a civil war threatened in Iraq.

George Bush and Tony Blair are being questioned constantly on their policies there and on their attitudes to the horrors of what has been happening in and to Lebanon and Israel. The sights form those "theatres of war" are worrying to everyone who feels for the victims of violent confrontations.

We speak as those who know what suffering and loss means from wars, civil wars and recurring troubles in a land famous and infamous for centuries of suffering from them. We commend all those in lesser or greater capacities who have the task of seeking and finding an end to the hostilities made familiar to us by the media; especially those who labour unarmed and carrying food, medicine and aid to the suffering from hunger, disease and homelessness. The courage and self-sacrificing zeal of these good men and women, constantly at risk of their lives, is the other reality that people are often kind and generous to others in need.

We would be remiss if we did not pay compliment to the many volunteers who serve in post-war situations where the effects are orphaned children, disabled and homeless people. The sterling efforts being made by our own folk to relive distress and despair make us proud and supportive of them in money and goods.

The Institution is less known than it should be for its strong emphasis on caring for the needy wherever and whoever they are. Our charities, and support of others of like kind, are as much an integral part of Orangeism as everything else for which it stands.

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