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Another excellent example of man’s inhumanity to man. It doesn’t need to be like this! It never needed to be like this!!
Ruhi
🆘What happens when HELL FREEZES OVER??🆘
With minus degree celcius temperatures making living conditions unbearable and tents collapsing from heavy snowfall I never thought I would see the day when hell really did freeze over.
Vucjak camp in Bihac is a catastrophe and when I was there a few weeks ago, if I thought then it was bad then with: infections and scabies, pollution and mud, flimsy tents and people with empty, soulless eyes.... it just got a whole load worse.
This is the third day now the residents of Vucjak camp have refused food and all aid in protest of the poor living conditions of this camp as the first snow fell striking disaster. They have barricaded the transportation bringing food and even refused the tent suitable heating stoves.
They are protesting for the borders to open and also for a better living conditions.
People know that they won’t all survive this.
Men and boys who should have been with their families, maybe working, maybe studying or out having fun are sending messages with words of ‘hunger’ and ‘death’
This is the Balkan Route from Hell, where they are stuck in the camp they call ‘The Jungle Camp’ will kill people unless something is done and fast.
You may ask how can these people refuse food and aid when they are in such desperate conditions. Ask yourself this.... What would you do if you have nothing to lose? If there was no hope? If you were living in a hell that just froze over.
‘The people of camp Vucjak say: We are on strike! Food and aid deliveries are not welcome! We would rather die than stay!’
We need to tell the world and maybe, just maybe enough powers above us will take action and put pressure on the authorities to take them all to a safer living environment.
Not so long ago I was in an interview and then I was contacted by a listener who said:
‘I just want to let you know that your words moved me a lot. Espacially your sentence "you know, we are killing them, not so much physically, but we are killing their souls as a world".
You speak so true!!!’
We really are killing people. We all have blood on our hands!
#BosniaHerzegovina #BalkanRouteFromHell #Vucjak #FoodStrike #AidStrike #Refugees #Migrants #HumanitarianCrisis
With minus degree celcius temperatures making living conditions unbearable and tents collapsing from heavy snowfall I never thought I would see the day when hell really did freeze over.
Vucjak camp in Bihac is a catastrophe and when I was there a few weeks ago, if I thought then it was bad then with: infections and scabies, pollution and mud, flimsy tents and people with empty, soulless eyes.... it just got a whole load worse.
This is the third day now the residents of Vucjak camp have refused food and all aid in protest of the poor living conditions of this camp as the first snow fell striking disaster. They have barricaded the transportation bringing food and even refused the tent suitable heating stoves.
They are protesting for the borders to open and also for a better living conditions.
People know that they won’t all survive this.
Men and boys who should have been with their families, maybe working, maybe studying or out having fun are sending messages with words of ‘hunger’ and ‘death’
This is the Balkan Route from Hell, where they are stuck in the camp they call ‘The Jungle Camp’ will kill people unless something is done and fast.
You may ask how can these people refuse food and aid when they are in such desperate conditions. Ask yourself this.... What would you do if you have nothing to lose? If there was no hope? If you were living in a hell that just froze over.
‘The people of camp Vucjak say: We are on strike! Food and aid deliveries are not welcome! We would rather die than stay!’
We need to tell the world and maybe, just maybe enough powers above us will take action and put pressure on the authorities to take them all to a safer living environment.
Not so long ago I was in an interview and then I was contacted by a listener who said:
‘I just want to let you know that your words moved me a lot. Espacially your sentence "you know, we are killing them, not so much physically, but we are killing their souls as a world".
You speak so true!!!’
We really are killing people. We all have blood on our hands!
#BosniaHerzegovina #BalkanRouteFromHell #Vucjak #FoodStrike #AidStrike #Refugees #Migrants #HumanitarianCrisis
We are still collecting medication for our friend Elena Who has been volunteering as a nurse in the clinic on Lesbos for the past 2/3 months. As you will see from the pictures taken bye Elena conditions in the camp are absolutely beyond desperate! For anyone wishing to donate medication, supermarket brands are fine and considerably cheaper. I’m fast gaining a reputation as a druggie, since every time I go shopping I pop two packets of paracetamol or ibuprofen into my trolley. We will be sending our third box of medication out to Lesbos in early January. So if you wish to contribute could you please get any items to us by then? We also take medication that is surplus to requirement and cannot be returned for future use. This time of the year we are very very glad of anything to combat symptoms of cold and flu as it is rife amongst camp residents. As we are busy ourselves preparing for Christmas festivities, please spare a thought for those still sleeping in tents, people with serious symptoms, some with Long term health issues for which they can’t obtain any relief. thank you so much as ever for anything you feel able to do to help. Heulwen
Elena
Some photos of the worst refugee camp.....
Any local businesses feeling generous enough to sponsor Shaz and his friends this weekend? I can vouch for the fact that they do some fantastic work to help and support those less fortunate due to the effects of war and persecution. Heulwen
Shaz
Any more businesses want to sponsor our t shirts. £100 donation. All the money goes to the needy families we are going out to help. We are doing the climb in the Yorkshire Dales on Sunday Insha Allah
To those of you who were kind enough to donate towards the cost of a wheelchair for Daniel, a young Congolese refugee residing in one of the camps in Uganda, I’m delighted to be able to report that earlier this evening I received a message from my very good friend Gideon who lives in the same camp. It was Gideon who originally made us aware of Daniels plight. He has also been our man on the ground when it came to procuring a suitable wheelchair. Here is Gideon‘s message:
Dear friends, I salute you and hope all is well. This is to thank you sincerely, on behalf of Daniel Baraka, for buying him a wheelchair through madam Heulwen Dickinson. We thank each and everyone of you who donated to this cause. A special word of thanks goes to Mrs Dickinson who did not hesitate to approach you about Daniel's need. His movements have now been made easy ever since he received this chair over a month ago. Previously he used to crawl around even in very dirty places like the latrine. May God bless you all for helping him to achieve his dream of owning a wheelchair. In the photo is Daniel in his wheelchair, and standing beside him is his mother, Sarah.
Dear friends, I salute you and hope all is well. This is to thank you sincerely, on behalf of Daniel Baraka, for buying him a wheelchair through madam Heulwen Dickinson. We thank each and everyone of you who donated to this cause. A special word of thanks goes to Mrs Dickinson who did not hesitate to approach you about Daniel's need. His movements have now been made easy ever since he received this chair over a month ago. Previously he used to crawl around even in very dirty places like the latrine. May God bless you all for helping him to achieve his dream of owning a wheelchair. In the photo is Daniel in his wheelchair, and standing beside him is his mother, Sarah.
