Beloved
Members of the Schneller Family,
Dear
Teachers, Trainers, Educators and Members of Staff,
Warm greeting
from Johann Ludwig Schneller School.
In these difficult days facing all
humanity, and the enormous need of our brothers and sisters in
Lebanon around us due to the inability of the Lebanese government to
help those who earn their income on a daily basis; those who are
strictly following the Corona Preventative Measures to stay at home,
and as a consequence lack the money to buy the simplest needs for
their families;
and since Schneller
School paid the
full salaries to all its employees, teachers, trainers and
educators, being a charitable school that relies
mainly
on the
support of
German churches, in addition to some assistance
from Swiss, British, and American churches;
and since
most schools in Lebanon have
either not paid salaries, or only paid them
in
part, because parents were not able to pay
school-fees and the heavy burden of the
new salary scale;
and since Schneller School is a Christian school committed to
Christian and Islamic values that require everyone to help their
fellow human beings who face poverty and destitution,
Schneller has decided to launch the
Social Responsibility Initiative for March 2020, by which it
requests all its employees, teachers, trainers, and educators, to
allocate 20% of their March salary, to help some of their relatives,
neighbors or friends, who lost their daily income due to the
interruption of work and their commitment to stay at home to prevent
the spread of the Corona virus.
We ask you to choose the poorest and most needy to provide them with
this assistance.
All teachers, trainers, educators, and members of staff are required
to obtain the signature of the recipients on a paper-receipt that
states the beneficiary's triple name with his/her address, telephone
number and amount of money received. These receipts should be
delivered to the school administration upon return to school.
Our
common
humanity and religious beliefs do not know ethnic or racial
distinction, and since many of our Syrian-refugee brothers and
sisters are also suffering around us, we ask that 20%
of these amounts be allocated to
help them.
I did exactly what I urged you to do, by
summoning a few former employees of Schneller School who are in
extreme poverty and a Syrian refugee, and I helped them with a total of
20%
of my salary. I also submitted
written receipts to the school's accounting department.
Teachers and members of staff
who work on an hourly basis are exempted from this initiative.
Therefore, 20%
of the salary of each full-time
teacher, trainer, educator and employee should be distributed as
follows: 80%
for Lebanese needy people of the
above criteria and 20% to Syrian refugees.
I thank
you all for your commitment to this voluntary initiative, which is
legally not binding, but compulsory from a human, religious, and
Schneller perspective.
Please coordinate with me before making
payments to make sure that the same person does not receive help
from many sources.
Rev. George Daniel Haddad.
Khirbet Qanafar on March 27, 2020.