Why blow your wedding bucks on one extravaganza when you can hold two for the same price? Jordanian newlyweds Mutaz Mango and Basma Omar opted to split their celebration, hosting a private party for family and friends and a second for Iraqi and Syrian refugee children living in the old Hashemi al Shemali neighborhood of East Amman. American evangelist David Wilkerson once said, “Love is not only something you feel, it is something you do.” Read how these two did it right.
The young couple, working with grassroots NGO The Collateral Repair Project, invited refugee children and their families to a special wedding celebration in a downtown Amman hotel. They provided food and entertainment, and distributed food vouchers to the 30 families that attended.
The couple also gave out gifts donated by those who came to their first reception. “We asked the people invited to the wedding to bring gifts the refugees can benefit from since we are donating our wedding gifts to them as well,” Mango told The Jordan Times. He said they decided to hand out food coupons after the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) announced in September that it would drop funding for around 230,000 Syrian families in the Kingdom.
Original article by Laurie Balbo
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Love Story: Jordanian newlyweds share their wedding with refugees
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