Guest guest Posted January 24, 2005 Report Share Posted January 24, 2005 UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE UPDATE I had talked it over with others in my clinic and decided I had to wait and go in March with a team that is setting up CIS/PTSD clinics in several areas. Tonight however I received the attached urgent email followed by a phone call from the director of the project. In the phone call the director stressed the importance of my going on this Feb. trip. I need to raise $1,500 for Air Fare and supplies ASAP ( I must pay for a ticket by TONIGHT at Midnight!but money can be borrowed if I have a reasonable idea it will be raised.) A pay pal account is being set up and donations can be sent to Dr R S Rosen 1529 York Street Denver CO 80206 Please write TSUNAMI RELIEF TEAM in 'memo' ------I originally wrote: I am currently trying to fund raise the cost of my trip to help with the Tsunami relief effort as part of a group of Native American Medical Workers. We will be 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 be recruited from the local populace and trained to help their own people. We are going to Thailand and then to Bandeh Aceh. Those of you who know me may be asking why I would go where so much mainstream help is already going? or Why focus on this when every day thousands of children die from the direct effects of poverty and the wars supported by US policies kill thousands more. 250,000 known dead from the Tsunami. Did you ever wonder why so many of those folks had built on the flood plain? The vast majority of those killed by the Tsunami were those same people who are always most at risk, the people economically oppressed by the industrialist/materialist system and displaced by wars. Most of the relief efforts now under way are tied to or going through the very Governments that have created or at least colluded in creating the conditions that placed these people in the path of the Tsunami to begin with. Doc Rosen FYI I spend about 4 - 5 months a year working pro-bono in the developing world teaching Promotores De Salud (often in conflict zones) and working as a StreetMedic and do not have the money for the fare or the supplies myself. " Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure. " - Helen Keller Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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