Guest guest Posted January 22, 2005 Report Share Posted January 22, 2005 Dear Colleagues, I am trying to raise the cost of my trip to help with the Tsunami relief effort. I currently plan to go as part of a group of Native American Medical Workers. If I can not raise enough money intime for this trip I will be part of another team going in about a month. We willbe working directly with the people affected. I hope to be able to set up clinics and a teaching program for a corps of Health Promoters who will berecruited from the local populace and trained to help their ownpeople.We are most likely going to Bandeh Aceh.Those of you who know me may be asking why I would go where somuch mainstream help is already going? or Why focus on this whenevery day thousands of children die from the direct effects of povertyand war kill thousands more.250,000 known dead from the Tsunami. Did you ever wonder why somany of those folks had built on the flood plain?The vast majority of those killed by the Tsunami were thosesame people who are always most at risk, the economically oppressedand those displaced by wars.Most of the relief efforts now under way are tied to or goingthrough the very Governments that have created or at least colluded increating the conditions that placed these people in the path of the Tsunamito begin with. In Bandeh Aceh the Indonesian Army has been cited as the main relief effort.-the same Indonesian Army troops accused by various international monitering agencies of torture, murder, and rape of the population.Doc RosenFYI I spend about 4 - 5 months a year working pro-bono in thedeveloping world setting up Promotore De Salud projects (often in conflictzones) and working as a StreetMedic and do not have the money for the fareor the supplies myself.-- “International solidarity is not an act of charity: It is anact of unitybetween allies fighting on different terrain toward the sameobjective.The foremost of these objectives is to aid the development ofhumanity tothe highest level possible.” Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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