DOROHOI - County Botosani.
The continuing trauma of the June disaster refugees
RCHF having been invited to make a full report on the 2008 flooding for NATO peace and security section has again delivered a report on the Dorohoi disaster plus has outlined suggestions to avert such disasters in the future including ways to help saving human life in such disaster situations. .
In late August RCHF participated in a round table conference at the Iasi Public health department to help discover future ideas for projects including if there could be funding grant availability in the future and will continue the long standing collaboration in 2011 as well as with The Pulmonary Disease University Hospital Iasi.
OUR next newsletter will appear in January with all the news of Christmas aid deliveries to families in need.
We wish all of our supporters a Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year.
A couple of 80 plus year old pensioners in Dorohoi we provided a tent home for and on the right one of the many beds complete with bedding RCHF with Dorcas has supplied to refugees in Dorohoi. Its now well below zero daily in Dorohoi and with deep snow and ice also to contend with the lives of these brave refugees remain precarious because of these extreme winter condition, but RCHF will continue to offer as much support as we can to help save further suffering. If anyone can offer any support no matter how little please drop us a line at stichting_rchf@yahoo.com without obligation
Human in the process of those who were too weak to escape from their small dwelling houses.
RCHF sent out urgent aid appeals and is thankful to Dorcas who sent in to Dorohoi 30 tons of much needed aid quickly after the disaster including fresh drinking water and food supplies for homeless refugees.
Time passed and RCHF realized that reconstruction materials for new dwellings was being held up in a political wrangle in Bucharest - time further passed and only a small amount of reconstruction materials arrived thus by autumn the majority of affected families were still homeless, some sleeping in makeshift shacks and others in dwellings that are in a dangerous condition and also pose a health risk from infected sewerage and water damage. RCHF helped by friends including Rupert Wolfe Murray organized and purchased tent kits for refugees as a stop gap accommodation. These large 2 bed-roomed tents were complete with 2 double mattresses; large rechargeable lantern and mattress feet pump. RCHF has continued to supply essential needs monthly to the refugees and will continue to do so until they are re housed after next spring. It’s a huge task and RCHF works in collaboration with the Dorohoi authorities in this vital operation, plus will be delivering Christmas aid to refugee families and children this year also.