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From: "Ivo Skoric" <ivo@reporters.net>
Subject: (Fwd) Let the sunflowers blossom again !!
Date: Sat, Apr 3, 1999, 5:29 AM
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Subject: Let the sunflowers blossom again !!
wam (still in belzig)
Dear Friends,
A short introduction for those who don't know me, but first a short
sorry
for those who get this message 2 or more times, the speed in which
every
thing was going in the last days, the messages that the cleansing and
the
bombing (not only from direct by the cleansing in Kosovo involved
objects)
is going on, that I hadn't the time to really check every address
carefully.
I am 43 years old at the time, Dutch, but living in the former DDR,
since
the Dayton agrement in 1995. From late 1991 till the Dayton agreement
I was
in basically Croatia and Bosnia, were I was working, let say as
volunteer
peace activist (I have been keeping a daily online dairy in that time,
you
can find it still on the web (go a search machine and ask for "zagreb
and
diary", if it interest you). Among a lot of other things I have been
one of
the co-founders of the Electronic Yugoslavian wide network ZaMir (for
peace), the organisation for grassroot voluntary humanitarian aid in
refugees camp, Suncokret (means sunflower in in local languages) and
co-founder of the Pakrac Voluntary Project, a project to rebuild a
small
town in Western Slavonia, which was devided by the war in Croatia in
1991.
I am especially writing you because I like to re-establish activities
like
SunCokret in this time again. Over 200.000 refugees have been coming
out of
Kosovo up to now, as far as we expect many more will follow. Daily you
see
how difficult the big and small humanitarian organisations from all
over the
world have it at this time. Nearly impossible to support all those
refugees
with the first neccessary aid. Ofcourse this is a problem which
basically
only the big organisation can solve, although small private initiative
also
can help there.
But like in the Croatian and Bosnian war taking care of refugees means
basically giving them a roof, food and medical supplies and let them
wait in
there centers until the whole fighting is over. Everybody who followed
the
war in the former Yugoslavia in the last 8 years knows that the
refugees who
are now in Albania, Montenegro and Macedonia (and even further)
wouldn't be
able to go back soon, it will take at least some months, or even years
(lot's of the refugees from the Bosnian war are still not return to
there
home town, and it will take even some more years before the are able
to).
The misery and traumic experiences from the voilence is followed by
the
sitting and waiting in refugee camps. For 7 years I wrote, if this
children
who come now from Bosnia haven't got a trauma yet fromw ar, they will
get a
trauma from being in a camp. Therefor we started in May 1992 as Anti
War
Campaign Croatia to mobilise volunteers (we paid their travel and
stay) from
all over the world (a few thousand came) we spend at least 3 weeks in
a
refugee camp (after a short training), in order to bring some
normality into
those camp, to show solidarity. Simply playing with children, talking
with
women, organising medical supplies for a certain camp by reporting the
situation back home. Or even start workshop (to make neccessary thing
like
tables, beds, clothes, etc.) and in even starting up schools.
It normally takes a long time before the big aid organisations can
start to
organise those activities, therefor again I like to go an appeal over
the
world, if there are people who like to do this, people who like to
help to
realise it (with money and other aid) or people who know peopel who
can
help, pleaseeact and send this message around to your friends.
Maybe we are able to let the sunflower blossom again !!!
Mir Sada !!!
wam
wam@mir.org
mir od mene,
wam:-)
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