Wednesday, October 27, 2010

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Pakistan: At tea in the displaced persons camp

There are meetings that you do not forget so quickly. Like those with Samlo Khan, his wife and their four children Bashira. Your Address: Hatri, camp for displaced people, an hour north of Hayderabad in southern Pakistan. Samlo Khan was landless laborers for a large landowner. In Pakistan they are called Haris. The 44-year-old in early August brought his family from the floods to safety.


Bashira with two of her children

Two months later, we sit in the late afternoon sun outside the tent on the wide bed, which was rescued from the water along with a cabinet made of wood and tin. Bashira is preparing to open fire on the tea. Walid, the 6-year-old second youngest, has also put to us. Samlo Khan first thanks for the help of the Red Cross. Like the other 120 families of the camp, he received for his family a tent and blankets. And every two weeks, 20 kilos of lentils, rice, cooking oil, salt, sugar and tea.


The cabinet that was saved from the floods.

"When in early August broke up our home made of mud like sugar in water, had to take our overnight flight. Together with our neighbors, we rented a truck, "says Khan Samlo. For the 150-kilometer trip to the Red Cross warehouse in Hatri they have the entire Savings depleted. 30,000 rupees, or slightly more than 400 francs for four families.

Recently someone had taken the decision out of their village in the area of Dudu in the Sindh province, the water was still not fully drained. To spend the next few weeks they are in safe storage. The volunteers of the local Red Crescent, they can not fail and continue to provide them with food rations.

expected in January, my friendly hosts will be able to return to their neighbors in their dry village. The wide bed and the cabinet made of wood and metal are then restrained with. Transport costs for the return trip takes the SRC, and a food supply for the first few weeks they will take on the uncertain path. When we Bashira served the tea, the sun appeared on the near horizon, the barren hills in a dark red light. At parting I can feel a lump in the throat.


Samlo Khan with the 6-year-old Wahid

NEWS: continue our assistance in Pakistan ...

Karl Schuler, the SRC for the communication of the International Cooperation in charge, tells of his impressions in Pakistan.

Monday, October 18, 2010

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Pakistan: The railway station offers refuge

Karl Schuler, the SRC for the communication of International Cooperation is responsible, just back from Pakistan. He reports his impressions.

the station of the town of Charsadda in the north of Pakistan have long been no train is more retracted. The neat brick building bears witness to a time when the British introduced railways Pakistan had its heyday. But since a week of the waiting room is the disused railway station revived again. But not with trains. The medical team of the local Red Crescent has here, an incredible surgery for patients and a pharmacy established.


"The people displaced by floods need to be treated mainly diarrhea and skin diseases," says the competent Dr. Nakash.



at the station site next to the overgrown weeds tracks 150, SRC delivered tents are set up. Here is attracted by families who were displaced by the floods from the surrounding villages. Immediately after the flood of early August, they had largely taken refuge in schools and hospitals.

"But now the school starts again and the hospitals need the space for the patient," explains Youssef Jan, the manager of the Red Crescent. "For the most needy families before the coming winter to provide protection, we are building here a model camp." These include next to the station set up health posts in the winterized tents and blankets and stoves, including drinking water and latrines.



Although not a train arrives or departs, there, now very busy in the station-Camp of Charsadda. For each family allocated by the SRC delivered food rations shall be 20 pounds for the next two weeks. All foods like rice, lentils, oil, salt and sugar could be procured in Pakistan. Since the flood, the harvest of the tenant farmers was largely destroyed, is that food aid for the coming weeks and months of great importance.

video with Karl Schuler, he reports his impressions on the spot.



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Text and photos by Karl Schuler SRK; picture of Dr. Nakash: SRK, Olivier Matthys

Monday, October 11, 2010

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Nepal: Finally seeing

Beatrix Spring, Marketing Manager International Affairs, was present when in a hardly accessible region in Nepal, a mobile eye camp was conducted.

The eight-member team reconnoitred Eye-camp immediately after arrival in Dolpa the dusty rooms, should be established in which the temporary treatment rooms. The aim was for a logical process structure set up the treatment process of waiting patients.

Two employees tested with buckets of water and sprinkled to the ground in order to bind the dust. The eye doctor said the premises and began disinfection, and the lining of the operating room with plastic. Once again proved the experienced team: administration, investigations, and surgical materials were packed in no time from the boxes and allocated logically.

There was no hospital in a working outhouse or water, was in demand innovation. Equally there is no space and a place to stay for the patients and companions. But somehow left to organize everything in the next few days, some with loud voices and sometimes with silent Action. Everything was focused on one goal: to treat patients and to give sight.

As a father waited with his blind wife and his handicapped brother in the leg. The brother was blind in one eye. The small group came together with their boys, they were 8 days and nights walking the road from the upper Dolpo. By rain, sun and wind - an incredible performance - uphill and downhill. Other patients was 3 or 4 days on the road and others only a few hours, but all were waiting for an investigation into whether blind eye or simply ill.


The patients and their companions camped in the open. Some were 8 days trekking their way to the eye camp for the journey.

Am 24.9. the first patients were operated on. 25 eyes in one day. The team was satisfied. There were no medical complications. Also, our cameraman was able to capture good images. Moreover, the rain came in the evening and at night, which says a lot easier.

After many discussions and deep impressions of the camp was packed up again four days later. The severe cases had of carriers for small airfield Jufal be worn on 2'700m. The camp team and we marched from the film crew hurriedly just before dusk also high to the airport where we hoped, the next morning with the propeller plane to fly back into the Terai. Without a toothbrush and washcloth stayed there somehow and we had luck with the weather the next day. We were able to depart by 10 clock.

Happy
300 people were checked and treated. 70 operations performed. 70 eyes could see again. We have enough material for an impressive film and new photographs.

In January, the film on DVD will be on display.


70 people were operated on and were given back their sight. For them, then began a new life.

photos of the eye camp


Beatrix Spring, SRK

The SRC in Nepal