Last year, a reader of Maria’s blog send her this linen wall map of Arabia, Maria has donated it to the Saad project, it is heading for his bare living room wall.

My friend Rachel Barlow also brought me an Arab-English dictionary that will help him learn English in his new apartment building – he is the only resident in this very large senior building who speaks Arablc.

When we get his new TV hooked up and cable installed, he will have access to arabic TV channels.

He is working hard at learning English, he wants to find work if his health will allow. I love this map, it is perfect for his new apartment. There are also four framed prints coming and two original water colors. I will be providing details of this work all week, including on Wednesday, when we bring many of these new things to him.

We cannot run his life or pay for it, either, nor do we want to. We can help him be safe and get started on his new life in America, someone no one bothered to do when he came her, rushed out of Ira to keep him  from religious extremists who had targeted  him for working in the U.S. Embassy during the war, and then abandoned.

We are setting it right and helping to give him the start he deserves, he is a good and gentle man. Thanks for coming along on this journey. He has not come to harm us or take our jobs.