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Armenian Genocide missionary Sara Corning remembered in England

August 8, 2018 By administrator

During a special evening at the Yarmouth County Museum and Archives on Aug. 3, people reflected on what missionary and humanitarian Sara Corning means to them, and to the world, and spoke about the steps that continue to be taken to ensure her humanitarian contributions are recognized and remembered, Annapolis County Spectator reports.

Corning, born in Chegoggin, Yarmouth County, in 1872, was a nurse and eventually worked with the American Red Cross. She joined the Near East Relief effort to aid refugees in 1919 and is credited with helping to save and care for thousands of Greek, Armenian and Assyrian orphans and refugees from the aftermath of World War One and the Siege of Smyrna in 1922. She continued her work with orphans in Greece and Turkey until 1930.

She returned to Chegoggin in her retirement, where she lived until her death in 1969 at the age of 97. Her headstone is inscribed with the words “She Lived to Serve Others.”

Raffi Sarkissian visited Corning’s gravesite while in Yarmouth last week. It was an emotional experience. Sarkissian is the founder and former chair of the Sara Corning Centre for Genocide Education in Toronto. The educator and genocide education advocate is also a descendant of survivors of the Armenian Genocide, the very people that Sara Corning helped. He was invited to speak about what Corning means to him and to the Armenian population. Gratitude spilled from nearly every sentence he spoke.

He said Corning was the obvious namesake for their centre in Toronto. The centre’s mission is to disseminate human rights and genocide-related research to elementary and secondary school students in Ontario.

“The Corning Centre’s conviction is that human rights education is effective in ensuring that Canadian students become engaged in civic life, advocate for their own rights and those of others, and remain aware of the consequences of discrimination,” reads the mission statement on the centre’s website.

“No one is paid to do any of the work we do. Professional teachers that give their time, researchers, historians, accountants, lawyers, all pitch in their time and effort to run this organization . . . We wanted the name to represent that selflessness,” he said. “Sara was undoubtedly that person for us. That person that became mother to so many orphans.”

Sarkissian feels that he literally owes his life and his family’s history to Corning and others like her.

“My grandparents and great-grandparents where those people who were directly possibly affected by people like Sara, if not Sara herself, because one of my grandfathers was actually in a Greek orphanage,” he said.

“Our family trees are just a few branches,” said Sarkissian. “It is thanks to that generation of humanitarians that the Armenian people today continue to exist.”

Both of his grandfathers – as children – were survivors of the Armenian genocide. During that time families were removed from their homes and exiled. Many people died along the deportation route due to starvation and sickness. Others were killed away from foreigners’ eyes, he said. Families were usually separated to destroy the family unity and to make it easier to control the Armenia population. Many children ended up in orphanages

And yet to this day, he said, there denial among many that the genocide occurred.

With the survivors nearly all gone – given that this was nearly 100 years ago – he said it is important to the Armenian community that immortalization occur in other ways.

Which is why the centre for genocide education continues its work and why Sarkissian is so pleased to see Sara Corning being honoured and remembered by others.

This past November Sara Corning was also posthumously awarded the Outstanding Canadian Award by the Armenian Community Centre of Toronto.One such group is the Sara Corning Society in Nova Scotia, which has many past and present members in Yarmouth. The Society has worked diligently to ensure Corning’s life and humanitarian work is remembered and honoured. A street – Sara Corning Way – has been named after her in Yarmouth, and there are other methods of remembrance taking place in Yarmouth and Nova Scotia, with others planned. The Society shared publicly during the event at the museum that it has commissioned an artist to create a life-size bronze statue of Corning that will be erected in the Town of Yarmouth. The goal is for the statue to be unveiled in the fall of 2019 said society members David and Jennifer Chown.

Related links:

Annapolis County Spectator. Continuing to remember Sara Corning: Yarmouth-born humanitarian still being recognized for her selfless work in serving others

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First plane carrying Armenian humanitarian aid reaches Syria’s Khmeimim

October 4, 2016 By administrator

armenian-humanitarian-aidThe first plane carrying humanitarian aid from Armenia landed at Syria’s Khmeimim air base on Monday, October 3, the Foreign Ministry said in a statement.

The Armenian consul was present at the time of landing, the Ministry said.

Earlier, President Serzh Sargsyan ordered that two planes with humanitarian aid be sent to Syria in coming days to support civilians affected from the Syrian conflict.

Related links:

Armenian Foreign Ministry’s Twitter account

Filed Under: News Tagged With: aid, Armenia, humanitarian, Syria

Iraq faces humanitarian disaster after Fallujah breakthrough

June 20, 2016 By administrator

DISPLACED. Iraqis from the city of Fallujah rest at a safe zone on June 17, 2016 in Amiriyiah al-Fallujah, after they were evacuated by Iraqi government forces. File photo by Moadh al-Dulaimi/AFP

DISPLACED. Iraqis from the city of Fallujah rest at a safe zone on June 17, 2016 in Amiriyiah al-Fallujah, after they were evacuated by Iraqi government forces. File photo by Moadh al-Dulaimi/AFP

FALLUJAH, Iraq (UPDATED) – Aid workers scrambled Sunday, June 19, to cope with a massive influx of Iraqi civilians who fled Fallujah after government forces retook much of the city from the Islamic State group.

Tens of thousands of civilians escaped the city, just 50 kilometers (30 miles) west of Baghdad, on the back of a major advance that saw Iraqi forces thrust into central Fallujah in recent days.

The humanitarian community has been struggling to cope, with thousands of people already suffering from hunger and trauma now stranded in the scorching summer heat with no shelter.

“The estimated total number of displaced from Fallujah in just the last 3 days is now at a staggering 30,000 people,” the Norwegian Refugee Council said.

The UN refugee agency (UNHCR) said up to 84,000 people had been forced to flee their homes since the start of the government offensive against the ISIS bastion nearly a month ago.

“Agencies are scrambling to respond to the rapidly evolving situation – and we are bracing ourselves for another large exodus in the next few days as we estimate that thousands more people remain trapped in Fallujah,” the UNHCR said.

“We implore the Iraqi government to take charge of this humanitarian disaster unfolding on our watch,” NRC’s Iraq director Nasr Muflahi said.

NRC said it could no longer provide the required assistance, with water rations drying up fast.

It cited the case of a newly opened camp in Amriyat al-Fallujah, south of Fallujah, that houses 1,800 people but has only one latrine for women.

“We need the Iraqi government to take a leading role in providing for the needs of the most vulnerable civilians who have endured months of trauma and terror,” Muflahi said.

An Iraqi aid worker employed by the government at a camp in Amriyat al-Fallujah said the resources were inadequate to deal with the scope of the crisis.

“Four hundred families have reached my camp in the last 4 days, they don’t have anything,” said the camp manager, speaking on condition of anonymity.

“We were shocked by the number of displaced people and we weren’t prepared to receive them,” he said.

“We secured tents for some of them but the rest, including women and children, are sleeping on the ground under the sun,” he said. “Their situation is a tragedy.”

Sniper fire

The temperature in Baghdad has been hovering above 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) and it often gets hotter in Anbar province, where inhabited areas along the Euphrates River are flanked by desert.

Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has promised to support the displaced.

On Friday evening, after Iraqi forces raised the national flag above the main government compound, he declared that Fallujah had been “brought back to the fold.”

Yet Iraqi forces have some work left to do, with hundreds of ISIS fighters still holed up in the city’s northern neighborhoods.

Abadi announced the liberation of Ramadi, the capital of Anbar, in December but the area was not brought under control until February.

Sporadic ISIS attacks there have continued, the latest of which was a thwarted ambush on the top military commander for Anbar on Sunday in an area called Zankura.

Despite facing less resistance than expected from ISIS in Fallujah, an emblematic jihadist stronghold, sniper fire, car bombs, and booby traps remained a risk for Iraq’s forces.

“Our forces are cleansing central Fallujah of pockets of Daesh (ISIS),” federal police chief Raed Shaker Jawdat told AFP, using an Arabic acronym for the jihadist group.

In the Officers neighborhood of Fallujah, ISIS snipers shot at an Iraqi flag pole until it broke, an AFP photographer reported.

The loss of Fallujah would continue a losing streak for ISIS that already leaves the “caliphate” it proclaimed two years ago looking moribund.

To keep the pressure on the jihadist organization, Iraqi forces also rekindled offensives east and south of Qayyarah in the north of the country.

With its strategic location west of the Tigris and its air field, Iraqi forces hope to make it a key launchpad in a major push to retake Mosul.

Abadi vowed on Friday that Mosul, the country’s second city and ISIS’s last remaining major urban hub in Iraq, would be liberated “very soon.” –

Source: Rappler.com

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: disaster, faces, humanitarian, Iraq

First ever Aurora dialogue to provide platform for humanitarian discussion

April 19, 2016 By administrator

f57162178db83a_57162178db871.thumbOn Saturday, April 23, 100 LIVES and the Aurora Prize will host the Aurora Dialogues – a series of insightful discussions between leading humanitarians, academics, philanthropists and media experts on some of today’s most pressing global challenges.
Through a series of keynote speeches, panel discussions and Q&A sessions, the Aurora Dialogues will encourage conversations that explore the importance of learning from the past, acting in the present, and fostering a better future. Discussion topics will include the state of humanitarian issues, the global refugee crisis, the role of women in the humanitarian community and the role of media in bringing humanitarian crises to the world’s attention, among others.
The Aurora Dialogues will allow the distinguished humanitarian guests who will be in Armenia for the events marking the presentation of the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity to exchange knowledge and views on the best ways to address these challenges. In keeping with the spirit of the Aurora Prize, the Aurora Dialogues will shine a light on the people who are working hard to address today’s atrocities in a real and substantial manner.
Discussions will be made available via live stream in English, French, Russian and Armenian.
100 LIVES Co-Founder and Aurora Prize Selection Committee Member Vartan Gregorian will open the Aurora Dialogues, welcoming guests and outlining the importance of the discussions.
The four primary Aurora Dialogues panel discussions will focus on:

• The Global State of Humanitarian Issues: The session will open with the findings of a specially commissioned survey, The Humanitarian Index. Conducted in six markets, the Humanitarian Index will reveal public attitudes towards humanitarian issues, priorities and accountability. The panel will then discuss topics informed by the research, including global perceptions on the refugee crisis, the responsibility to protect, support needs in the short- and medium-term, and long-term strategies for combatting humanitarian issues. Panel participants will analyze where global humanitarian “hot spots” are, and discuss what can be done to bring effective assistance to these areas.

• Saving the World’s Refugees, Syria and Beyond: Gareth Evans, President Emeritus of the International Crisis Group and Aurora Prize Selection Committee Member, will give a keynote speech on his pioneering work with the Responsibility to Protect commitment and his contributions to conflict prevention and resolution. The distinguished panel will then discuss the root causes of forced migration, assess what can be learnt from history, and discuss the ways in which the humanitarian community can work in collaboration with institutions to address these issues.

• The Role of Women in the International Humanitarian Community: Led by Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor and Ambassador to the United Nations, Nancy Soderberg, the panel will bring together a group of exceptional women with diverse expertise in the international humanitarian community. The session will assess women’s contribution to humanitarian discourse and the roles they can play in acting as agents for social change.

• Shining a Light on the Crisis (The Role of Media in the International Community): Led by former ABC anchor Ted Koppel, the panel will discuss the important role of media in covering humanitarian crises, reporting ‘back home’, and bringing events to a wider audience. Participants will exchange views on the role played by media in raising awareness of humanitarian issues, shaping public opinion, highlighting the need for urgent response, and driving efforts to confront bad actors. Discussion will also look into the evolving media landscape, and the role of social media and the 24-hour news-cycle in the media’s ability to raise awareness of humanitarian crises.
Participants at the Aurora Dialogues include:
• Marguerite Barankitse, Founder, Maison Shalom; Aurora Prize Finalist

• Joyce Barnathan, President, International Center for Journalists

• Dr. Shirin Ebadi, Human Rights Lawyer and Iran’s first female judge; Nobel Laureate; Aurora Prize Selection Committee Member

• Enrique Eguren, President, Protection International

• Gareth Evans, President Emeritus, International Crisis Group; Aurora Prize Selection Committee Member

• Dr. Leymah Gbowee, Liberian peace activist and women’s right advocate; Nobel Laureate; Aurora Prize Selection Committee Member

• Syeda Ghulam Fatima, General Secretary, Bonded Labour Liberation Front; Aurora Prize Finalist

• David Ignatius, Author; Columnist, The Washington Post

• Hina Jilani, Former United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary-General on Human Rights

Defenders; Aurora Prize Selection Committee Member

• Ted Koppel, Former ABC anchor

• Dr. Josephine Kulea, Founder and Executive Director, Samburu Girls Foundation

• Steve Kurkjian, Author; former Washington Bureau Chief and Founder of Investigative Column Spotlight,

The Boston Globe

• Dr. Edward Luck, Arnold A. Saltzman Professor of Professional Practice in International and Public Affairs; Director, Specialization in International Conflict Resolution, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University

• Dr. Steven Luckert, Senior Program Curator, Levine Institute for Holocaust Education, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

• Aryeh Neier, President Emeritus, Open Society Foundation

• David Tolbert, President, International Center for Transitional Justice

• Dr. James Smith, CEO and Founder, Aegis Trust

• Nancy Soderberg, Former U.S. Deputy National Security Advisor and Ambassador to the United Nations

• Gillian Sorensen, Board Member, International Rescue Committee; Senior Advisor, United Nations Foundation
The Aurora Dialogues will be live streamed in English, French, Russian and Armenian. Link to live stream and updates from the Aurora Dialogues and the overall weekend will be posted on the 100 LIVES and Aurora Prize media center and Aurora Prize social media sites. Follow the Aurora Dialogues and featured events on Twitter by searching #AuroraPrize and #AuroraDialogues.

Filed Under: Articles, Events Tagged With: Aurora, dialogue, humanitarian, platform

France: EMERGENCY KARABAKH Support the humanitarian campaign AGBU

April 13, 2016 By administrator

arton124744-480x481Recent attacks by Azeri armed forces against the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh (Artsakh) caused the highest number of casualties since the cease-fire of 1994. AGBU answers the call to emergency humanitarian aid launched by the Republic of Nagorno Karabakh.

AGBU calls its donors and members to promote actions for peace, to help the people of Artsakh and raise awareness to a situation increasingly dangerous.

TO DONATE
SEND A CHEQUE
Check payable to AGBU
Addressed to AGBU France
11 square Alboni
75016 Paris – France

BANK TRANSFER
HSBC France
117, avenue des Champs Elysées – 75008 PARIS
Bank code: 30056
Bank: 00897
Account No: 08970077099
RIB key: 21
IBAN: FR76 3005 6008 9708 9700 7709 921
BIC: CCFRFRPP

More information: http://ugabfrance.org/faire-un-don

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: France, humanitarian, Karabakh, support

Syria military military, backed by Russian warplanes delivers humanitarian aid to besieged Deir ez-Zor

April 7, 2016 By administrator

Syria sending aid deir zorSyria’s military, backed by Russian warplanes, has delivered a major cargo of humanitarian aid to beleaguered people in the eastern city of Deir ez-Zor held by Takfiri Daesh terrorists.

Russian Defense Ministry said on Thursday that Moscow facilitated the airdrop a day earlier by the Syrian Air Force of about 30 tons of humanitarian aid to the areas blocked by Daesh militants.

A statement by the ministry said the cargo, which mostly included foodstuff, belonged to the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement. It said Russia’s center for reconciliation in Syria which was established in late February at the western Hmeimim airbase assisted the delivery.

“The aid delivery was carried out from the Hmeimim airfield by the Il-76 aircraft of Syria’s Air Force escorted by Russia’s Su-30 and Su-35 fighter jets,” the statement said, adding that the cargo had been waiting for months to reach around 200,000 people in Deir ez-Zor.

The ministry also released a video showing Syrian Air Force delivering the humanitarian to the people besieged by Daesh in the city.

Daesh is excluded from a ceasefire which is currently in effect in Syria. The Takfiri group, which controls territories mostly in east and north of the Arab country, has taken advantage of the siege imposed on towns and villages as a major tactic to slow the advance of the Syrian military into urban areas.

The group seized Deir ez-Zor more than a year ago, forcing some citizens there to eat grass because of the cut-off in food supplies. The World Food Program said in March that households in the city were unable to eat more than one meal per day.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: aid, humanitarian, Syria

$1.8 Million Anonymous Donation for Humanitarian Projects in Armenia

July 16, 2015 By administrator

siona-donorLOS ANGELES—An anonymous benefactor recently donated nearly $1.8 million to three nonprofit organizations that operate in Armenia: Armenia Tree Project (ATP), Armenian American Wellness Center (AAWC), and Armenian EyeCare Project (AECP). Each organization received one-third of the generous gift.

“Too few help Armenia,” the anonymous donor said when explaining the rationale for his donation.

He spoke at length about his deceased family members, whose memory he said he wanted to honor with his generous donation, especially during the centennial year of the Armenian Genocide.

“This is not from me, but from my father, my mother, and my sister,” he explained.

His last surviving family member was his older sister, Siona, who died last year, in September, in their unassuming California home. His mother, Elmas, passed away in 1982, and his father, Harry, in 1984.

Harry immigrated to the United States from Kharpert, Armenia around 1912, prior to the Armenian Genocide, and settled in Worcester, Mass. “He always sent money to his father back in Kharpert,” the donor said of his father. “Then, one day, the money came back and he never heard from his family again.”

Elmas, his mother, was also born in Kharpert, in 1905. Along with her sister Varter, she spent approximately five years in a Lutheran orphanage in Kharpert, becoming proficient in three languages and learning to embroider. “My mother came to the United States and within a year she began attending school,” he said.

Elmas and her sister were brought to Massachusetts in 1920 after their aunt, who lived in the United States, discovered that they were alive after the Genocide.

When Harry asked for Elmas’s hand in marriage, he repaid Elmas’s aunt “every penny” of her travel costs to America, the donor said. Those pennies had come at a huge cost to his dad, who worked in the Worcester nickel plating factory: “At the time of my father’s death, his lungs had almost disintegrated,” he said.

donorarmydonorsfatherfamilyIn telling the story, he tears up, recalling that his father would give his mother only the best—the first refrigerator, the first television set, all the yarn and string she wanted to use for her embroidery—yet his mother would always mumble, in Armenian, “Yes inchou chem grnar ourakh ellal?” (Why am I unable to be happy?)

Born in Worcester, the donor was the couple’s second child; Siona was two years older. While in Worcester, Siona worked for a title company. She was also a Sunday school teacher there.

He, meanwhile, served in the armed forces during World War II and was stationed in Japan. “That was the only time I left the USA. Interestingly, people are the same everywhere,” he said. He attended Clark University, in Worcester, and became an accountant.

In 1972, to escape the harsh East Coast winters, the family relocated from Massachusetts to California.

After their move, Siona could not work; her brother, the anonymous donor, took care of his sister until her death. The siblings had been living in what was essentially a glorified trailer community ever since they had moved to California. “We spent every day together,” he recalls.

The donor was not involved in the Armenian community, yet he knew about the Diaspora’s efforts made to assist Armenia. He had read about the three nonprofits—ATP, AAWC, and AECP—and their humanitarian projects in Armenia.

As his health began deteriorating, he made the decision to distribute his family’s savings to the three organizations.

Explaining his donation, he cited the Bible about giving to those in need, and added: “I have everything I need: shelter, food, and a warm bed. Now, I want to help my nation, the people of Armenia.”

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Anonymous Donation, Armenia, humanitarian, Projects

Humanitarian bus for the Iraqi Kurdistan with Elise Boghossian * (1)

November 19, 2014 By administrator

arton105405-480x384It’s always disturbing to come back here and back into this universe. Through customs at the airport with its billboards phone or Dior, waiting for his bag among some European clusters, journalists and oil investors, leaving the major luxury hotels in the city and roll over tens of kilometers in large plains, to find the most remote camps, the refugees themselves with the same clothes, shaved or long hair, the time seems to have stopped them. Even the recycling center where the Yazidis live has not changed, the gates acting bed with crows and staging, it’s almost beautiful, as if an artist had put his leg at work. The same decor, the same newspaper, the same abandonment.

Viyan picked me up at the airport. He is Kurdish, pharmacist and founder of the Kurdistan Medical Charity Foundation. Dilnaz my friend’s daughter, the princess, had introduced me as a man of the field very reliable, dedicated. The grandfather Viyan was tortured to death by Turkish Armenians because it housed in 1915 in Turkey. His father then escaped to Baghdad, it was a very close family friend of the princess. Viyan was educated in Ukraine, and he puts his time, his energy, his entire life to serving refugees, whatever their origin, their religion, their language, whether Syrian, the Yazidis, Christians, refugees Salaheddin, Ramadi, Falluja, the Sunni, the Shabak and persimmons. Two hundred volunteer doctors and nurses working with him. We had a few exchanges before my arrival in September, our collaboration with patients was successful and we are pleased at the prospect of continuing to work together.

Compared to last summer where NGOs were not present, we feel a desire to put in place a real organization. Public gardens Erbil have been emptied. The night is too cold, and the recent massive influx of refugees from Kirkuk and Kobané have resulted in the opening of old plants, the development of caves or abandoned malls. UN trying to unite all the humanitarian organizations and UNHCR provides each family kits of blankets and clothing, water, diapers and food. In tents, each family maintains its space. The shoes remain at the entrance and walk in socks on the tarp placed on the ground, the picture of the Virgin Mary with a rosary hanging on the foot screws of the bulb, the teapot is always ready on the small stove land mattresses are stacked with folded blankets near a wooden crate containing rice, eggplant and tomatoes, the richest have a radio. At the entrance of these buildings with between 400 and 1500 individuals, one or two prefabricated possible to register new arrivals, and Kurdish and foreign volunteers meet the physical necessities. According to the religion of refugees, we can also meet a priest, imam, etc. The authorities are trying to poach doctors from hospitals in the city, themselves also clogged. So some care is provided, particularly among the elderly and children. For the rest, we must wait …

In the surrounding plains and neighboring villages is even worse. Near déchèteries or herds of black sheep camps are secured by barbed wire and peshmergues. Epidemics heat last summer resulted in many deaths, and the image of the camps, cemeteries are overloaded. Tractors return the land around the camps to enlarge because it took hundreds of host families that arrived last week. Simply in the province of Duhok, 3 hours drive north of Erbil, there 17 camps for 850,000 residents, it leaves an idea of ​​the percentage of care actually charged and the number of refugees in all three provinces Kurdistan. With their fifty seats, tents furnished by UNICEF are trying to avoid breaking the school with children. But the despair of these families as children themselves already seem old. Sometimes we see them play, improvising games balls from mud and making holes in the ground. Teenagers carry water, offer waxing your shoes, beg you to give them work. From Mosul, Baghdad, Aleppo … parents are teachers, architects, shoemakers, restorers of objects of art, cooks. We read in their eyes the shame of becoming a beggar overnight.

There is an explosion of pregnancies in the camps, “attacks like everywhere, people have nothing to do,” is the refrain yes, but in the camps is different. When you’ve lost everything, you’re reduced to a beast waiting as time passes, or that life stops, desperation sometimes leads to the worst crimes. In these times, it used to have something like poetry. In the back of this scene, you find yourself in Baudelaire, and these pretty girls rounded belly are living proof; they age laugh, live their first carnal pleasures or to spend their time on the benches of our universities, but their faces are frozen. The only medical camp cabin has a small refrigerator lock with some antibiotics, gynecological gloves, some pads contraceptive pills and condoms, the valve does not work, dirt and dust are such that you wonder resistant infections .

On the truck, we validated purchase at Le Mans last week and had to be put in place to enter the territory permissions. By Patrick Jouan who worked at the RATP, we chose a model 8m long with 4 cabins + convertible infirmary care and pharmacy. It’s little, but it’s a start … I think I was a little, even very stressed at the idea that the truck is stopped at the exit of the boat in Turkey, or before entering the territory Kurdish. And two jokers carried me and continue to bring me luck: Consul General Frederic Tissot and Princess.

Official appointments were held with the Governor of Duhok, the adviser to the Prime Minister Barzani, the Ministry of Health. I could enter the “passport” of the truck, and it will have a number plate on the way to the Kurdish territory. We Viyan registered on the registration and pass as owner of the truck. The truck will take the boat these days in Marseille to Mersin, and an official team will go retrieve it off the boat in Turkey. All development work, installation of water and its disposal, electricity, insulation, air conditioning, heating, stretchers, cabinets … will ultimately be made here. In France, the waiting times were too long for companies who manage ambulances to wait six months to install our clinic standards. And costs ranged around 20,000 euros. With Azad who runs a manufacturing plant, we have a team of professionals operating framed by an architect who works with the state. It has already drawn up plans gracefully. Our ten workers are refugees: Syrians, Kurds, Yezidis, Christians, and they are so happy to contribute in exchange for some treatments and medications that some even offered to work for free. And the final price in comparison to Paris, we will not exceed the $ 8,000 all inclusive. I also expect the price of the boat, customs before returning to Kurdistan, many details, so many details to create a small hospital of 20m2.

Gynaecology Without Borders offers the installation of a cabin with a gynecological examination table, delivery sets and technical equipment. With UMAF we will also have to supply some medicines pharmacy.

It was also necessary to meet the staff ready to work every day for four months. Staff will be employed. We recruited a Kurdish driver, a Syrian worker, nurse Aleppo. Three full-time doctors will join the team: a gynecologist, a general practitioner and my dear Abdelkarim with which our paths crossed for the 3rd time!

Abdelkarim is a native of Dara who worked in the Jordanian Syrian refugee camps in 2013, I often croisais when I was with the Moroccan military Zaatari. It is a plump sixty years man, with an ocean of sweetness and sadness in his eyes, and as a physician would like to have for our children. He treats so many children with listening, attention and professionalism unique. And last September, chance that I came across him in a Yezidi sanctuary Lalesh installing my acupuncture consultation. He was sheltered under the trees, it was 50 degrees that day, and dozens of families were clustered around him. It was great to see a familiar face in a sacred place, a refuge against Daech. And yesterday in Erbil, we still came face to face with the Department of Health! Not having a valid passport, he went on his own to Kobané treat children, and he returned to Kurdistan illegally. In fact, the authorities have stuck him a warning and he has the right to practice without a contract. And we were overjoyed with Viyan when he agreed to work in our mobile clinic.

It is in times like these: warm smile Duhok Governor ready to open its doors, the knowing look of Abdelkarim, discreet kindness of the princess, Viyan solidarity and warmth of its people, support Henri-Jean gynecology, UMAF for drugs, Mylène and its decisive role in helloasso, Azad to isolate the clinic, Rene and Simon for parliamentary reserve Olivier for his confidence, Fabienne for his support for the most hours later, Patrick for his collaboration, Rachel, Valerie, Xavier Benedict, for his hands … Laurence, which clings to the hope that everything is still possible, even at the scale of an ant. At night, close your eyes the quiet heart, because each in its own way, brings beauty to the world.

Elise Boghossian

* Organic Express

• 2001: Mission to the casualties of the war in Nagorno-Karabakh • 2002: creation of the humanitarian association Shennong & Avicenna • 2011 defended his thesis in Chinese medicine in Nanjing • 2013: Missions to Syrian refugees • 2014: September , contact mission in Iraq Yezidis and Christians refugees in November, back in Iraq for a humanitarian project bus.

With the purchase of a bus and planning clinic in the Shennong & Avicenna association can provide emergency care for the management of pain and Yezidi Christian refugees in Iraq. A goal painkiller 7000 consultations by spring 2015. To help finance the project:
www.helloasso.com/associations/shennong-avicenne/collectes/aidez-nous-a-la-creation-d-un-dispensaire-mobile-anti-douleur

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