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Salsa af Stavsnas
Ellinor Ristoff Staffan Ehde
Mon 27 Apr 2015 09:20
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Hope you enjoyed all pictures! That was a surprise,
but today we suddenly had limitless satellite communication and I took the
opportunity to just throw up a bunch. Unfortunally there is no order and no
text, hopefully you can attach them stories told earlier...
Yesterday, just before dawn we came into this bay
that is not even on the charts. Good to have Google earth and some good
anchorages guides on internet (we downloaded material in Fiji). This bay is not
secret in any way, as a matter of fact t is used by the world rally and some
other global sailing organisations.This means also that the world rally has sent
the village money to recover.
To sync with Samariathan Purse and to make the
imigration officer happy we took on a trip by car to Leneka, the main city on
Tana.
The road going there was a Paris Dakar Rally where
most of it was in very rough terrain.2,5 hours later we were there. On the
way we could witness the enormous forces that have been here. The town itself
looked really bad and it seems that as soon as your environment is no longer
natural it becomes really messy, really really messy.
In Leneka the action was high. Ships unloading and
trucks loaded with food took off in different directions.
Samariathan Purse had a big temporary warehouse
full of food and their office was simple but efficient. In contrast to
organisations that have to proof their existence by being at the disaster spot
but also want to make sure they get the right exposure in media, not to mention
branding. It is almost like UNICEF is competing with CocaCola when it comes to
make sure that everybody knows they are here.
As a matter of fact I haven't seen one Coca Cola
sign, but EVERY kid on the island has UNICEF backpacks, every kid.
It is not that they did not have any before, we saw
today kids that went home with the new backpacks carrying the old ones in their
hands.
Enough of that, Samariathan Purse is funded by a
few donors and that means that they do not care about exposure, their aim
is to be first on site and to give the best needed help. When it comes to Tana
there are a few spots that neither the goverment or the aid workers have been
able to reach and that's where we come in. We can come to them through a tiny
bay on the north side.
Today I went up to the hospital in Lenaka and
talked to their doctor in charge (our doctors had a day off with the kids), I
found out there is another spot where they have not been taken care off
medically so the doctors leave tomorrow morning for that village and will run a
clinic there. In the evening we plan on getting up the vulcano that puffs here
on the island.
The day after tomorrow we will be two boats going
to these villages up north and check them out, eventually unloading our food. If
there is more need, we will have one boat in Lenaka ready to load and come up to
assist. After that we need to run up to Eromango before the real hard wind hits
us and stops the work.
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