| On the Ground: A Diary from Chad |
| Another death in the Guereda therapeutic feeding center sends a ripple of anger and sadness across the IMC compound. The one-and-a-half-year-old Baby Fatuma had been diagnosed as severely malnourished a week earlier by IMC nutrition staff in the Kounoungo supplementary feeding center. National staff had been alarmed by her emaciated frame and falling weight. Yet traditional beliefs prevail amongst the refugee population, which had been denied access to western medical care their entire lives; where burns and cuts to release “bad blood” are the preferred treatment methods. With the diligence of community health workers and the tireless efforts IMC health teams earning the trust of the refugees, this is starting to change. However, a combination of horrific living circumstances, poor access to food and water, and a clutching of traditional healing practices still leaves children vulnerable. IMC nutritionist Bienfait recounts the arrival of Fatuma the night before, describing a baby he was certain would die. He had stayed awake the entire night, administering a drip and running malaria tests, determined to save her life. Despite negative malaria results, an undetectable infection raged within the baby girl. “This morning she was better... it kills me inside, when I see them getting better and dare to hope and then they die,” Bienfait said. I was in shock myself. I had ventured to the therapeutic feeding center to greet the lively mothers and drink tea, unaware of the life that had just passed. One mother came up gasping with no words…she just kept moving her hands, gesticulating wildly. I did not recognize her, the same mother I had seen earlier that day, sitting quietly in a corner rocking her baby. I wondered whether maybe she was mad. I leaned forward and tried to calm her, but she kept rasping incomprehensible words. Finally, IMC nutrition assistant Medina spoke for her, explaining that her baby had died earlier that afternoon. Falling into a sick numbness, I tried to hug her but she just kept gesticulating in a daze. A group of refugee mothers gathered around her, placing their arms upon her grieving shoulders. All they could give her was comforting words in Arabic. “She is with God now, in a better place…may he take care of her,” they said. Accustomed to the death of family members-babies, husbands, fathers, mothers, sisters and brothers-these women stood together with the only resources that had been left to them when they fled their homes: their faith and inner strength. She nodded slowly, coming back into her skin and realizing where she was. “Yes, she is with God now,” the mother repeated. Sometimes in such moments the best healing is left to the community itself. |
Current mood:
enraged
(Please forgive the cursing, im normally not this pissed off.)
The blog that I posted before this is serious. It is not a joke, and it has and will affect all of you. The Bush administration has already made our country into the most dispised and disresepcted nation worldwide, and it is time that we fight for our rights, and the constitution, and for what JFK and the great leaders of our country did before they were assasinated by our own fucking government.
Up until this point, I have thought that I need to get out of America. We aren't safe. And I am not talking about from people in other parts of the world, I am talking about from our own government and high ranking officials. 9/11 was staged so that we could go to Iraq (which had NO CONNECTION to the ALSO FAKE 9/11 PLANE HIJACKERS WHICH BTW 5/7 OF THESE PEOPLE ARE ALIVE AND HAVE TURNED UP BACK IN THEIR HOME COUNTRIES) and our government could make money off of their oil. (BTW, the specific people giving orders to stay are the ones who own companies profiting from the oil there) Not only that, but the Bush administration and the CIA and intelligence agencies in our country have everything in place to start a NUCLEAR WAR AGAINST IRAN. THEY ONLY NEED A REASON TO DO IT. KEEP YOUR EYES OPEN FOR THE NEXT FUCKING STAGED ATTACK THAT KILLS THOUSANDS OF INNOCENT PEOPLE TO SCARE THEM INTO SURRENDING THEIR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS AND BRINGING THESE TERRIBLE PEOPLE CLOSER TO THE WAR WORLD 3 AGAINST CHINA AND RUSSIA. Thank intelligent people (the UN) for being a brick wall against these stupid fuckers.
YES. I am ANGRY. You should be too. The world is so fucking fucked up. Do we stay silent? Or speak to break it? Just be aware of what is going on around you. And for ANYONE who thinks that Bush is a good president and his doing his best, you are severely wrong. Watch this, just watch so you at least know the truth about what is happening in your own country. This is RESEARCHED SCIENTIFIC EVIDENCE that shows that 9/11 was staged and explains what the bigger picture is, and how all the history and research comes together. The reason it makes sense, is because this is the TRUTH. Not like these bullshit lies we've been soaking up.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5004704309041471296
Just for the record: My main point in my blog wasn't that 9/11 was staged (although, as Ben pointed out it definetly was expected to say the least) it was that they need to be exposed for what the did/allowed to happen. No one has been rightfully penalized for the crimes of 9/11. Not ONE person. Except countries that had nothing to do with it.
Back to Bush. He put us trillions of dollars in debt and is being a puppet for a bigger picture. He's a fucking moron and I almost feel bad for him for being so fucking ignorant. This is very sad for our country. We used to be one of the most respected countries in the world, and now look at it. We are shattered by our own leaders. (heart breaks)
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Hey, just so you know, these comments below here are only to show what other people said. However, Ben Casey says a lot of bullshit. He likes using big words and hearing himself talk. For every huge long paragraph he said, I agreed with maybe one sentence. out of all of it.
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