Disaster Response
Terremoto Cile 38 – Sigue La Red de la Investigacion
CTF-SOS DRS is looking to extend its work in Chile. After my recent visit (Nov. 18-24, 2010) when I heard of the number of adults and children who are still traumatized by the earthquake, we have decided to sponsor pastoral formation programs in counseling and a scientific study to look at the psychological effects of the earthquake. Please help us as we help those Chileans still traumatized by the earthquake
p. Pietro Magliozzi, MI
La red para crear esta investigación de alto valor científico en Chile liderada por los Camilianos CTF se ensancha a la Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, departamenteo de Psiquiatría en las personas de Francisco Avoitis (director), Cecilia Ruiz (psiquiatra infantil), Daniela Huerta (neuro-psiquiatra investigadora).
Vea a Las Fotos
http://camilodelellis.blogspot.com/2010/12/sigue-la-red-para-la-investigacion-ctf.html
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Pakistan 15 – A Visit to Jati
Pakistan 8 – A Look Back – Meet Mushtaq
Pakistan 9 – The Franciscans – Meet Our Local Collaborators
Pakistan 10 – Sindh – One Place Where CTF-SOS DRS is Working
Pakistan 11 – Working with the Franciscans in Hyderabad
Pakistan 12 – The Pastoral Formation with the OFMs begins
Pakistan 13 – Mushtaq sends an Update
Pakistan 14 – Episcopal Conference Approves Project
Dear Confreres,
Ministers of the Infirm (CAMILLIANS)
Philippine Province
www.camilliansphil.org
20 million people were displaced by the floods in Pakistan. CTF-SOS DRS is providing many of them with medical care, shelter, pastoral care and humanitarian support. Please help us help those affected by the floods in Pakistan
Terremoto Cile 37 – Futuro CTF Chile – Una Investigacion?
CTF-SOS DRS is looking to extend its work in Chile. After my recent visit (Nov. 18-24, 2010) when I heard of the number of adults and children who are still traumatized by the earthquake, we have decided to sponsor pastoral formation programs in counseling and a scientific study to look at the psychological effects of the earthquake. Please help us as we help those Chileans still traumatized by the earthquake
p. Pietro Magliozzi, MI
Con los encuentros el 22-26 de noviembre en el hospital de Parral, con El Obispo de Linare y la Caritas Chile, empieza a crearse la red para poner de pié una investigación CTF sobre el estrés post traumático en el niño, fuente de trastornos psiquiátiricos futuros.
En Chile se ha demonstrado que hoy, a 9 meses del terremoto, 20-22% de la población adulta (incluso en Santiago que no ha recibido daños estructurales) tiene esta sindrome cronicizada, que es fuente de ansiedad crónica, angustia, depresión, fobias, pánico, pesadillas, etc. peor es en el mundo infantil. Y todo esto se puede diagnosticar y prevenir o también curar. Esta fue la propuesta que en Chile fue escuchada y acogida con gran entusiasmo. El Dr. Vicari y Arigliani son nuestros expertos en presentar esto proyecto de investigación intervención.
Vea a Las Fotos
http://camilodelellis.blogspot.com/2010/12/ctf-futuro-en-chile-una-investigacion.html
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Pakistan Floods 14 – Italian Episcopal Conference Approves Project
On November 20, 2010 the Italian Episcopal Confernece approved the Pakistan Floord Relief Project submitted by CTF-SOS DRS through CTF Central.
The relief efforts until that point have been supported primarily by CTF Central, SOS DRS, the Philippine Province of the camillians and ProSA – an NGO of the Lombardo-Venetian Province of the Camillians located in Milan.
The Italian Episcopal Conference has supported CTF-SOS DRS projects in the Philippines (Typhoon Ketsana – Sept. 2009) and Haiti (Earthquake – January 2011). Manty thanks for their continued support.
20 million people were displaced by the floods in Pakistan. CTF-SOS DRS is providing many of them with medical care, shelter, pastoral care and humanitarian support. Please help us help those affected by the floods in Pakistan
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Cholera 13 Haiti – The Situation is Still Serious
Cholera 12 -CTF-SOS DRS in the News
Cholera 8 – Urgent Situation in Les Irois. Cholera Spreads in Haiti
Cholera 7 – The Epidemic Reaches Port au Prince
Cholera 6 – Petite Riviere – The first Mission
Cholera 5 - Update – 500 deaths so far
Cholera 3 - Overview of cholera and the situation as of Nov. 1, 2010
Cholera 2 - Will the outbreak head to Port au Prince? We stay.
Cholera 1 - Preparing to go to Artibonite: a decision to make
The relief effort in Les Irois continues.
Therese, Marc Daly and Vickens are working together with Fr. Francien of Our Lady of Mercy Parish and nurses at the local hospital to help the 10-15 patients that are arriving every day with suspected cholera. They have all the telltale signs: dehydration and days of diarrhea. Some are even vomiting blood according to Therese’s reports – not a good sign. Anyway, she tells me that the three of them are working 10-hour-days, at least, providing: IV hydration, oral rehydration solution [ORS} and antibiotics - not to mention pastoral care for the dying and the living - and humanitarian support. But they are running low on medications and ORS.
Here is an interesting communication I had with Therese - via SKYPE, a brief dialogue that is one of the few that we have been able to have in the last 2 days because communication has been difficult: the CTF-SOS DRS mission is in a remote part of Haiti, and for communication we rely on a mobile internet device connected to the local phone grid.
[12/21/2010 1:10:09 PM] Theresia Sinaga: Fr. S, are you there?
[12/21/2010 1:12:02 PM] Scott Binet: Yes. Hi Therese.
[12/21/2010 1:12:09 PM] Theresia Sinaga: HI
[12/21/2010 1:12:15 PM] Theresia Sinaga: How are you?
[12/21/2010 1:12:24 PM] Theresia Sinaga: I have been looking for you this morning
[12/21/2010 1:12:37 PM] Theresia Sinaga: Yes, I need some medicines
[12/21/2010 1:13:42 PM] Scott Binet: What do you need?
[12/21/2010 1:13:59 PM] Theresia Sinaga: I need more ORS
[12/21/2010 1:14:44 PM] Theresia Sinaga: Some antibiotics (doxycyline)
[12/21/2010 1:15:11 PM] Theresia Sinaga: and if Theresa Banks could provide tents it would be good for us
[12/21/2010 1:15:14 PM] Theresia Sinaga: do they have it
[12/21/2010 1:15:51 PM] Theresia Sinaga: At least we have 10-15 people per day who has problem with diarrhea and vomiting
[12/21/2010 1:16:07 PM] Theresia Sinaga: though we do not know exactly if they have cholera
[12/21/2010 1:16:17 PM] Theresia Sinaga: but we suspect them have cholera\
[12/21/2010 1:16:31 PM] Theresia Sinaga: I tried to get the cholera bed from the hospital
[12/21/2010 1:16:40 PM] Theresia Sinaga: because you could not buy it here
[12/21/2010 1:16:53 PM] Theresia Sinaga: one way to have it is by making it
[12/21/2010 1:17:06 PM] Theresia Sinaga: MD, V and I are thinking to make it
[12/21/2010 1:17:37 PM] Theresia Sinaga: the tents that I request it would be for cholera
[12/21/2010 1:18:03 PM] Theresia Sinaga: I would like to separate the people who are suspected cholera with anothet patients
[12/21/2010 1:18:59 PM] Theresia Sinaga: I am thinking to buy tents probably and some woods so we can set up the cholera place
Yes, you can see from Therese’s communication that the needs in Les Irois are great. She confirmed that for me when we spoke this morning – Dec. 23rd. I arrived in Port au Prince last night in the evening and am now preparing for a mission to Les Irois.
Thanks to several benefactors in Houston – especially my brother Todd [an SOS DRS board member] and a generous new friend of the organization named Mike Hanks - and some collaborators in Florida [Light of the World Charities], I was able to bring some medical supplies into Haiti last night. That is actually no small accomplishment given the difficulty of getting items through customs, etc.
I will look to take the items to Les Irois on December 25 when I go there with 2 members of CTF-SOS DRS – Vickens [who just returned to PaP today], and Wesbee, the newest member of the community who I first worked with in Goniaves, Haiti in 2004 when Hurricane Jeanne devastated that city.
The supplies include items from our inventory in PaP and two duffle bags weighing 70 lbs each with: portable cots - 10; IV tubing - 60; 2×2 guaze - 2 pkgs; alcohol wipes - 1000 each; IV extension tubing- 25; nonsterile gloves - 200; Cipro 500 mg - 1,500 tabs; large bottles children’s tylenol - 6; Nacl IV bags 100cc - 60; IV -cathlons #18 - 250; Amoxicillin liq child susp - 27; Lomotil - 25; cipro IV -10 bottles; Tylenol Adult - boxes.
The patients that we treat in Les Irois are young and old – and some come in pairs. Below are pictures of a couple we treated. She came with diarrhea and dehydration and was very sick. And of course that put her little child at serious risk: madamn is pregnant.
Donate – Relief in Haiti -Earthquake, Cholera, Hurricane Thomas
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Terremoto Cile 36 – Una Despedida
Pelluhue uno de los lugares de Chile más afectados por el tsunami, con mayor úmero de muertos, nos ha despedido con una gran presencia de jovenes del colegio de Pelluhue donde hemos trabajado acompañando a los jovenes que habían sufrido pérdidas.
Lea mas y vea las fotos..
http://camilodelellis.blogspot.com/2010/12/una-despedida-la-ctf-rica-de-conmocion.html
CTF-SOS DRS is looking to extend its work in Chile. After my recent visit (Nov. 18-24, 2010) when I heard of the number of adults and children who are still traumatized by the earthquake, we have decided to sponsor pastoral formation programs in counseling and a scientific study to look at the psychological effects of the earthquake. Please help us as we help those Chileans still traumatized by the earthquake
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Pakistan 13 – Mushtaq Sends an Update
| After speaking with Mushtaq while Marco Iazzolino and I were in Chile, he writes us an update on how things are going in Pakistan. Let us keep him and the people he is serving in our prayers. Dear Fr. Scott and Marco,
Greetings of peace and good health. Fr. Aris keeps constant communcation with me. I am indeed thankful for his guidance and support for me. I am learning so much from him. As I said, I am in my home town now. I traveled 18 hours by train to reach Okara. I am hoping to get a train ticket tomorrow even if it might be very expensive because of the Muslim feast; it was really rush. No seat available in bus or train. Many times they sell in black. It was terrible but I am glad I came back and will be able to settle bank account concerns. I am getting some info regarding winter package and shelter material and about the construction work (water purifcation plant) in Khushpur. I/we are hoping to strike a good deal for winter package that could reach even much more than 50 families. I am very optimistic about it. Once again. Thank you so much. Let us continue praying for each other. Fraternally yours with love and prayers in Christ, St. Camillus and Mother Mary Mushtaq Bro. Mushtaq Anjum, MI
Ministers of the Infirm (CAMILLIANS) Philippine Province www.camilliansphil.org 20 million people were displaced by the floods in Pakistan. CTF-SOS DRS is providing many of them with medical care, shelter, pastoral care and humanitarian support. Please help us help those affected by the floods in Pakistan |
Pakistan 12 – The Pastoral Formation with the OFMs begins
20 million people were displaced by the floods in Pakistan. CTF-SOS DRS is providing many of them with medical care, shelter, pastoral care and humanitarian support. Please help us help those affected by the floods in Pakistan
Mushtaq writes:
Dear Confreres,
Today it is another fruitful day. As scheduled, we conducted pastoral care training for volunteers. After prayer, we started with orientation to the activity.
Bro. Mushtaq Anjum, MI spoke on the following topics
1) Orientation of Volunteers for Disaster Mental Health and Psychosocial Assistance
2) Mental Health and Psychosocial Assessment and the Role of Psychologists/ Pastoral Care givers
3) Mental Health and Psychosocial Interventions and the Role of Psychologists/ Pastoral Care givers
4) Preparing to Help: Self Assessment of Knowledge and Skills
5) Preparing to help: Grounding expectations
6) Some guidelines to help you inoculate yourself from the Negative Effects of Stress
7) A Thoughtful Word, A healing Touch
Fr. David Mughal, OFM spoke on
8) Jesus and his healing Ministry…
The participants were glad and thankful for the opportunity to grow. Some saw the importance of such input which are not only beneficial to the participants during their visit to the flood victims but saw and acknowledged the significance of such input in their daily lives for proper human growth.
The seminar ended with short pray followed by lunch.
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Teremoto Cile 35 – Los Modulos Pediatricos en Parral
http://camilodelellis.blogspot.com/2010/12/un-trabajo-camiliano-de-equipo-para.html
CTF-SOS DRS is looking to extend its work in Chile. After my recent visit (Nov. 18-24, 2010) when I heard of the number of adults and children who are still traumatized by the earthquake, we have decided to sponsor pastoral formation programs in counseling and a scientific study to look at the psychological effects of the earthquake. Please help us as we help those Chileans still traumatized by the earthquake
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Pakistan 11 – Working with the Franciscans in Hyderabad
20 million people were displaced by the floods in Pakistan. CTF-SOS DRS is providing many of them with medical care, shelter, pastoral care and humanitarian support. Please help us help those affected by the floods in Pakistan
Mushtaq writes:
Dear Confreres
Today I, together with Fr. David, OFM, Caritas personnel, and OFM youth volunteers, revisited Hindu and Christian communities which Fr. Aris and I visited almost a month ago.
We measured the houses. It will help us buy roofing material in fitting form for the structures they have built. Almost 25 families have been registered who will benefit and get roofing material. The other 25 we will pinpoint in another Christian community in Jati, part of the Dioceese of Hyderabad, which is almost 2 hours ride away from Hyderabad. There are so many sitting in tents in Sindh area waiting for help.
We interacted with the people; we asked them how to go about it and encouraged them to start, and continue those who have already started rebuilding their devastated houses.
Some even complained that if they will spend time in rebuilding their houses (with mud which takes almost a month since the mud has to dry before you can put another layer on it) how can they survive because they go earning money for their daily sustenance…
The people were so generous and thanked us and our congregation for remembering them, for helping them in this difficult time when they need most. They invited us to visit them even in the future, not necessarily with some relief goods and material.
The women, children, disable, sick and old people are most vulnerable in this tragedy. The life is so difficult for these people who are just sitting in the tent and waiting for the help to arrive earlier and faster than winter…
Ministers of the Infirm (CAMILLIANS)
Philippine Province
http://www.camilliansphil.org
Pakistan 10 – Sindh – One Place Where CTF-SOS DRS is working
Mushtaq, a Camillian from Pakistan who is the mission coordinator of our efforts in the wake of the floods, sends us an article on the situation in Sindh, a desperate one that led us to help construct houses and provide other relief in the area.
PAKISTAN: Sindh flood victims “forgotten”
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DADU, 16 November 2010 (IRIN) – Like tens of thousands of others in the southern province of Sindh, Ghulam Uddin and his family of eight are all but marooned more than 100 days after floodwater started swamping huge chunks of Pakistan in late July.
Chest-deep water surrounds their house in a village in Dadu district, which has turned fields into lakes and destroyed all of Uddin’s carefully cultivated crops, and though it is possible to wade through the water, it is not easy.
“I cannot see how we are going to get back to anything resembling normal,” Uddin told IRIN. “My elderly mother insisted we come back because she hated life in the camps [set up to provide emergency shelter].” His house has been badly damaged, and the family is living in the open, dependent on hand-outs of food. Most of the other villagers have not yet returned.
“There are around one and a half million people in Sindh who are still primarily displaced and have not been able to return home, and about another one and a half million who have managed to get close to their houses, but not move back,” Thomas Gurtner, the UN Principal Humanitarian Advisor for Sindh, told IRIN.
In Dadu district there were still a “few thousand people” marooned, but it was “very hard to know exactly how many,” he said. Most people whose homes were surrounded by water had been “reached at least once if not twice by tractors, trolleys and so on for the delivery of humanitarian aid.”
Life is not easy for those who have returned home. “Things here are tough. Our house is badly damaged and we have lost all our livestock,” said Saleem Ahmed, 50, who lives in the town of Khairpur Nathan Shah in Sukkur district. “We are being forgotten, and will just have to manage on our own.”
Donations down
Anwar Kazmi, a spokesman for the charitable Edhi Foundation, told IRIN: “We are focusing on providing seed and fertilizer to flood victims who have returned home.” Many other organizations are also providing what assistance they can, but media attention has swung away from flood victims and donations are thinner.
“In August, at the height of the floods, most people who came to my [shoe] shop put in a few coins or currency notes for flood victims [in a collection box on the counter]. Now hardly anyone does,” said Muhamad Inayat, a trader in the Saddar area of Karachi, capital of Sindh Province.
Claire Seaward, Advocacy, Media and Communication Manager for the UK-based charity, Oxfam, told IRIN: “There is a real danger that this crisis will be forgotten, and we need to do everything we can to prevent that from happening. While recovery work is underway in many areas as people have moved back home, large areas of . Sindh are still under water, around 1 million remain displaced, and only a tiny percentage of people have received any shelter – the emergency is not over.”
She added: “The world has been hit hard by crises in 2010, and funds are running low, but with nearly seven million Pakistanis living without shelter and winter fast approaching, aid is needed now more than ever.”
According to the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), “The revised Pakistan Floods Emergency Response Plan (FERP) envisages activities costing US$1.93 billion over a one-year timeframe.”
So far, around $867.4 million (44.8 percent of requirements) has been contributed, and a further $5.9 million has been pledged, leaving a considerable gap.
Ministers of the Infirm (CAMILLIANS)
Philippine Province
www.camilliansphil.org
20 million people were displaced by the floods in Pakistan. CTF-SOS DRS is providing many of them with medical care, shelter, pastoral care and humanitarian support. Please help us help those affected by the floods in Pakistan
Terremoto Cile 34 – in Parral
EL CONGRESO CAMILIANO CTF VA A PARRAL CON DOS EXPERTOS
Con la llegada del Dr. Stefano Vicari, neuropsiquiatra infantil del Bambin Gesú de Roma y del Dr. Raffaele Arigliani, pediatra, presidente de la asociación counselling pediatrico de Italia, (el primero y el segundo desde izquierda de la última foto), empieza el viaje a la septima región para organizar un proyecto de investigación intervención camiliana sobre los niños afectados cronicamente por el estrés post-traumático (post terremoto). Se trata solo en la región del Maule de 80.000 niños enfermos que tendrán en futuro trastornos psiquiatricos si no diagnosticados y tratados.
En la tercera y cuarta foto se ve una familia ayudada por la CTF en el pos-terremoto en Parral. un padre de familia, caballero de profesión que se encuentra con un cancer del rostro y sin trabajo a enfrentar el tema de la perdida de casa, etc.
Vea las fotos
http://camilodelellis.blogspot.com/2010/12/el-congreso-camiliano-ctf-va-parral-con.html
CTF-SOS DRS is looking to extend its work in Chile. After my recent visit (Nov. 18-24, 2010) when I heard of the number of adults and children who are still traumatized by the earthquake, we have decided to sponsor pastoral formation programs in counseling and a scientific study to look at the psychological effects of the earthquake. Please help us as we help those Chileans still traumatized by the earthquake
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Terremoto Cile 33 – Sigue Congreso..
SIGUE CONGRESO CTF EN SAN BERNARDO – CAMILIANOS ACTIVOS EN EL POST TERREMOTO CHILE
Los participantes al congreso CTF Chile han sido 1o. El coordinador general P. Dr. SCott Binet, el representante de la Casa Generalicia por la CTF internacional Marco Iazzolino (logista), y los miembros chilenos: P. Pietro m.i. coordinador CTF Chile, Sebastián (Coordinador CTF Parral), Patricia y Alicia (agentes profesionales CTF), Hna Haida y Hna Teresiña (Relgiosas camilianas en cTF), Patricia Quiroz y Blanca (laicas comprometidas en CTF).
Vea Las Fotos..
http://camilodelellis.blogspot.com/2010/12/sigue-congreso-ctf-en-san-bernardo.html
CTF-SOS DRS is looking to extend its work in Chile. After my recent visit (Nov. 18-24, 2010) when I heard of the number of adults and children who are still traumatized by the earthquake, we have decided to sponsor pastoral formation programs in counseling and a scientific study to look at the psychological effects of the earthquake. Please help us as we help those Chileans still traumatized by the earthquake
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Pakistan Floods 9 – Meet our Local Collaborators – The Franciscans (OFM)
Pakistan Floods 8 – Meet Mushtaq
On November 16, already in Pakistan for a bit and after the visit of Fr. Aris, Mushtaq writes about the Franciscans that he has met in Hyderabad. They have become important local collaborators. Here is a look at this early part of the mission in Pakistan as the relationship with the Franciscans develops
Dear Scott,
Greetings from the Diocese of Hyderabad.
I am in Hyerdrabad. I am staying in the Cathedral parish house with OFM fathers. This afternoon, I had meeting with the team of volunteers of OFM parishes. Fr. David OFM and catechist were there.
I talked about our congregation, charism and ministry, and our present purpose of the CTF.
On Nov 16 at 8AM we went to small Hindu and Christian communities in Kotri, Disst Jamshoro which we already together with Fr. Aris visited.
We will specify deserving families and give them tokens and organize them before giving the construction material for roofing. We will measure the houses so that the material will be proper in size.
On Nov 17, we will conduct a seminar on PASTORAL CARE which will serve as a capacity building, improving sympathy and empathy and listening skills in the light of the gospel values, that in serving them, we serve Jesus the Christ. these volunteers and medical professionals will attend this seminar in which a Camillian spirituality will be inculcated as well. I called and updated Fr. Samson Shukardin, OFM about the seminar; he was very appreciative of this; he said that we really need this in our undertakings. Fr. Samson and David, both OFM, are very excited about it. Fr. David will also be a resource person together with me.
The seminar will tackle on the following topics
1) Orientation of the volunteers for Disaster Mental Health and Psycho-social Assistance
2) “A thoughtful Word, A healing Touch”
3) Fr. David will also be a speaker.
We are a little slowed down because of the muslim feast. These are holidays so we will make the most of it in our preparation.
Bro. Mushtaq Anjum, MI
Ministers of the Infirm (CAMILLIANS)
Philippine Province
www.camilliansphil.org
20 million people were displaced by the floods in Pakistan. CTF-SOS DRS is providing many of them with medical care, shelter, pastoral care and humanitarian support. Please help us help those affected by the floods in Pakistan
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Teremoto Cile 32 – Congreso in San Bernardo
CTF – CAMILLIAN TASK FORCE EN CHILE POST TERREMOTO, CONGRESO EN SAN BERNARDO
El 20 de noviembre empieza el congreso sobre la CTF/SOS.Drs (Camillian Task Force, Servants of de Sick disasters relief of San Camilus) en Chile. Esta rama de los Religiosos Camilos nació operativamente junto a la misión chilena, hace 6 años. En 6 años ha realizado 20 misiones en lugares de disastres naturales o causados por el hombre (en los 5 continentes). Padre Scott Binet, médico, es el coordinador internacional, bajo la supervisión del Hno Luca Perletti, consultor de la Orden.
Cada intervención tiene tres secotres de intervención: la parte médica, la parte humanitaria (ayuda material), la parte pastoral (ayuda psicospiritual).
Vea las fotos – http://camilodelellis.blogspot.com/2010/12/ctf-camillian-task-force-en-chile-post.html
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