Tuesday,
June 17,
2008
My Return
to Mianyang:
Hope Centers
Becoming
Sponsored,
Those in
Medical Need
to Find
Volunteer
Doctors
Through this
site, I have
brainstormed
my ideas,
but I
haven't
fully shared
their
fruition, so
let me do as
I explain
what I have
seen in the
last few
days.
Earthquake
Hope
Centers:
Counseling
Program -
Dealing with
the
emotional
pain of
young
earthquake
victims.
Within the
seven Hope
Center
tents,
erected in
the area
devastated
by the May
12th
earthquake
in Sichuan
Province,
Children’s
Hope is
bringing
counseling
and a loving hopeful
message to
hurting
children and
their
families. My
goal is to
reach out
through 50
similar
centers in
the
earthquake
zone.
In each tent
there are
books, toys
and
counseling
by trained
staff to
help
children who survived the
earthquake.
The
counseling
helps the
children
deal with
their
emotions and
fears. The
Hope Center
staff and
volunteers
also help
each family
find
additional
resources as
well as
making
follow-up
visits with
food,
medicine and
continued
emotional
support.
One mom at
this center,
who lost her
child in the
earthquake,
has
particularly
touched my
heart. She
cried day
after day;
she had lost
her desire
to live.
After many
visits with
us, she
found peace
to carry on.
We went to
Mianyang,
Yongan Hope
Center with
our friends
from US on
June 16th.
After the
visit, they
decided to
sponsor this
center for
an entire
year! You
can sponsor
a Center,
too, or be a
partner with
other donors
to get one
started.
As of early
June, our
Hope Center
in Mianyang
has been
helping the
victim
children in
Sichuan. Two
new staff
members,
Baosen and
Huangxin,
are
replacing
our
temporary
volunteers
at this
location and
will be
counseling
and teaching
these
children.
Summer
Relief Bags
Our
successful
School Bag
Project
delivered
1,000 school
bags to
victim
children. We
hope for
similar
success in raising
funds for a
Summer
Relief Bag
Program to
help the
children we
encounter in
the
earthquake-affected
areas.
Each bag
will contain
temporary
relief items
and a
6-month
multi-vitamin
supply -
giving 4
months of
relief to
see the children
through the
summer
months and
flood
season. My
goal is to
provide
approximately
1,100
children
with Summer
Relief Bags.
I met
another
volunteer
Haixin in
Mianyang
yesterday.
She had
walked from
Wenchuan all
the way to
Mianyang.
She brought
news the
road from Wenchuan is
now blocked
by
mudslides,
although,
travelers
still
attempt to
walk along
the road.
In the news,
we see many
of the
afflicted
have
returned to
work, but when we are
at the
frontlines,
most of the
victims are
still in
need of the
most basic
supplies. I
wish we
would have
ways to get
more
supplies to
send to
them.
I would love
to get our
Summer
Relief Bag
project
going so we
can bring
summer items
to the
people
living in
tents.
Monday, June 16, 2008
(Beijing
time)
"I found
this child
ZhangChunLing
through our
volunteer
group in
Sichuan.
She was
burned when
she was
little. Her
family lost
their house
to the
earthquake,
she saved
two of her
classmates
life on May
12th. She is
around 13,
we have
three video
clips of her
and her
class, her
parents,
they ask if
we can help
to get her
to
treatment.
We sent the
picture to
the burn
hospital and
doctors we
know and ask
them what
can be
done. "
- Melody in
Sichuan
Sunday, June 15, 2008
(Beijing
time)
Melody went
to Sichuan
again on
June 14th.
Temporary
rooms
A truck
sent
materials to
Mianyang to
build up
temporary
houses for
the disaster
victims
Friday, June 13, 2008
(Beijing
time)
Children are
taking a
class.
Thursday, June 12, 2008
(Beijing
time)
The volunteer Liu Jinan from Beijing, Mei Duo from
Shanghai and
CHI staff
took
children's
books, toys,
stationery
to the
victims'
settle sites
in Anxian
with the
assistance
of
volunteers
in Chengdu.
According to
their
requirement,
Liu
Jinan
and Mei Duo
will be
allocated to
Beichuan to
be teachers
there for a
month.
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 (Beijing time)
Ren Yan and Ren Qiang arrived in Beijing yesterday afternoon.
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Zheng Hong is a reporter of CCTV, she went to Wenchuan to take the two children to Beijing.
Picture taken with Melody Zhang and the volunteers in Beijing
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008
(Beijing
time)
11:00
Chen Hui received 75 items, including 500 bags and 2
boxes of
toothpaste,
a box of
toliet water
donated by
The Good
Rock
Foundation
in June 9th.
But because
it rains
continuously
and the
roads to the
disaster
area
collapsed
terribly,
these bags
have to be
stored in
Chengdu
until the
road is
available.
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Monday, June 9, 2008
(Beijing time)
13:00
Ren Yan and Ren Qiang said goodbye to the CHI volunteers
in Chengdu this
morning. Accompanied
by the volunteer
Zhenghong, They will
go to Beijing to
start their new
lives. Let's bless
them！
Our volunteer team will take 1000 cartoon handbooks
about children's
psychology health
provided by
China
Technology Academe,
children's clothes,
books, stationery
and medicine to the
social work service
site in
Mianyang. They
will provide aid
about material,
education and
psychology for the
children and their
families.
0:00
Ren Yan and Ren Qiang are sister and brother living in
Weizhou Town,
Wenchuan County.
Their father died
from
accident when Ren
Qiang was one year
and three months.
Unfortunately, their
mother died from the
disaster. They
have to live with
their grandparents.
Their house collapse
in the earthquake.
All the family live
in a tent now. When
a kind person
knew their
condition, he
provide help for
them. But because
the school was
affected by the
earthquake, the two
children can't go
back to study. In
order to help them
regain the
opportunity of
study, he contacted
CHI and hoped we
can take them to
Beijing to study. We
contact schools as
soon as we know it.
The affiliated
middle school
and
elementary school of
Beijing Technology
College accept them
and will provide
education from
elementary school
to high school
for them.
It took the volunteer Zheng Hong seven days to take Ren
Yan and Ren Qiang to
Chengdu. They
arrived in Chengdu
in June 7th. They
will set off to
Beijing this
afternoon. We will
try our best to help
them in the future.
Ren Yan, Ren Qiang, the volunteer Zheng Hong, Chen
Liuyan and our staff
Huang Xin.
Ren Qiang seeing painting albums with our staff
Sunday, June 8, 2008
(Beijing time)
22：00
There ARE some pictures from our volunteer Qiyan, a
reporter
from Jingbao
newspaper
who went to
all the
dangerous
places in
Sichuan
during the
time she was
there.
These are
the pictures
she took on
May 16th in
Beichuan.
We had
three
volunteers
went in
Beichuan
that day. Me
and the
other member
went to
Mianyang
orphanage.
the 6th floor building lay in the middle of the road
with many
people
under.
People calling their family members name outside the
falled
building for
days, won't
give up.
11:00
Yesterday, our staff Shen Jiaying and her team
confirmed 4
or 5 sites
for
psychology
counseling
which will
be
named Social Worker Care Center. They are preparing
for it and
will provide
training for
the local
volunteers.
13:30
The pictures below are the donated materials carried
to Wenchuan
by the army
on June 4th.
They include
500
bags,
and the
other 282
items such
as Eight
ingredient
porridge,
stationery,
medicine and
toys and so
on.
Chen Hui
has been
receiving
the feedback
from where
she sent
donated
materials
to. She took
pictures for
them.
The police working in the airport help us carry the
donated
materials.
The volunteers assisted the car carrying materials to
move on.
The loving mother Bai Xue stayed with the child in the
disaster
area.
The villagers who are waiting for the donated
materials.
Below are
the pictures
taken in
Jiuzhou
gymnasium
when our
staff and
her team
take
psychology
counseling
for
the
children:
The pictures
and
compositions
made by
children.
having the
class
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008 (Beijing time)
From our staff Chen Hui:
The volunteer Zhaoke and I went to Xiaoba Village to
pick Lin Caihong up to Chengdu. She is an orphan who
suffers from congenital heart disease. Accompanied by
the volunteer Yang Peixin, she and the old lady who
adopted her will go to Beijing by train to take the
surgery.
Lin Caihong was abandoned by her parents because of her
disease. Then a kind old lady adopted her and used all
her money for her treatment. The lady’s son whom Lin
Caihong calls uncle is also a kindhearted person. He
tries his best to earn money for her treatment. He is 30
years old, but hasn’t got married because he is poor.
Their house collapsed by the earthquake. All of them
lived in a tent. Their dream is that her disease will be
cured and then she can go to school like normal
children.
When I saw her in the settlement site, I told her my
phone number. From then on, she called me almost
everyday to ask if I could help her take a surgery. She
told me she would go back to the tent-school to study
after taking the surgery.
We picked Lin Caihong up to the village government
to apply for
approval at 2 p.m.
in June 3rd.
Caihong is waiting for me back from the government.
I asked her where she would like to sit. She said she
would like to sit
with me. So we sat
together on the same
seat. The driver
is a volunteer named
Zhao Ke. He works in
an advertisement
company in
Zhengzhou.
I lived with Caihong and her grandma in Chengdu.
Caihong was so glad
because she would
start her way to
Beijing today. Let’s
bless her!
Shen Jiaying will
take some materials
to Chuanzhu Village,
Anchang County
today. She and her
team develops new
villages which need
help everyday. They
went several
villages in Anchang
County these days
and found almost all
of them are affected
terribly by the
earthquake. Their
houses collapsed and
children there have
no place to study.
So they are
selecting a place
which has most
children in to
develop a site for
children's
psychology
counseling.
The house is where the mom of the two boys got
killed by the
landslide.
a car with families wanting to go back home to
Maoxian on May 25th.
Tuesday, June 3, 2008
(Beijing time)
Zhao Xiaonian
and her team is
working on
psychology
counseling for
the children in
disaster area.
They are needing
volunteers who
have the
background of
education,
adolescent
growth training,
nurse, doctor,
social worker,
driver, cook or
field survival
expansion.
Our staff Chen
Hui will go to
Xiaoba village
to meet Min
Caihong who is
an orphan
suffering from
congenital heart
disease. Then
Caihong will be
sent to Beijing
to take a
surgery. On the
way there, Chen
Hui will go to
Deyang Orphanage
to give them the
donated
materials what
they need.
The volunteer
Yang Peixin will
classify the
donated
materials with
the other 8
volunteers
today. Our staff
Xiaonian told us
that the
settlement sites
which are
convenient for
traffic have got
enough
materials, so
she suggested we
should
distribute the
donated
materials to the
countryside
which are far
from the center.
Meanwhile, we'd
better store
some materials
in order to help
the children in
the disaster
area for a long
time. Besides,
we know that the
disaster in
Xianyang and
Gansu Province
are also
serious, but
they got little
attention, so
they are lack of
materials. Our
staff will go
there to
investigate the
local situation
this week. Then
we will
distribute the
materials to
them
appropriately.
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Monday,
June 2, 2008 (Beijing time)
Our staff
Chenhui in Chengdu received 500 bags from Rock
Fundation, in which here are stationery, underwear,
umbrellas, toys and painting albums. All of them were
prepared attentively. Besides, she also received 250
bags of formula, 1000 feeding bottles and 250 boxes of
sanitary towel from Zhengzhou loving mothers; books
which cost 20,000 RMB from Shanghai fense mothers.
Shen Jiaying and her team is planning to put up an aid
site for children's psychology counselling. She is
preparing the training data today.
Zhao Xiaonian and her team put up three tents for the
children. They will be used for library, activity room
and class room.
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9：00am
From our staff Chen
Hui in Chengdu
Yesterday is Children's Day. My workmate Shen
Jiaying, the volunteer Yang Peixin, Gao Xue from
Baby Tree and I went to present the children in the
disaster area 422 new bags and gifts. All of these
bags are from the"1000 bags for children in disaster
area" activity raised by Baby Tree and CHI. Jing
Newspaper also donated Fu Wa to them. Besides, the
other 500 bags from HongKong Rock Fundation will be
arrived recently.
We knew from the disaster settlement that there had
been a lot of kindhearted people sending bags to the
children. In order not to send the bags to the same
children, we changed our distribution plan after
investigation. The new one was that 60 for the
middle-school students in Anxian xiaoba tent
classroom, 220 for Yuanmen elementary school in
Yongan Town An County, 42 for Wen County, 500 for
Wenchun. All the children were very happy when they
got the bags and stationery. When we were leaving,
they all asked us when we would come again. I felt
that all of them were lack of intercommunion.
Here we want to show our gratitude to Baby Tree,
Rock Fundation, Jing Newspaper, Beijing Benz
Chrysler, kindhearted stuff from Motorola and every
kindhearted people. Bags and contributions are still
coming from all over the country. We will send the
second and third batch of bags to the children in
need as soon as possible.
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Sunday, June 1, 2008 (Beijing time)
Please help the orphans in need.
The call for the orphan children in
Sichuan touched many hearts. There are
over 10,000 Chinese families came
forward to register to adopt one earth
quake orphan. However, the local
authority, Sichuan provincial Civil
Affairs tries very hard to tell people
this is not the time for adoption, but a
time for family reunification. As they
have not even had a chance to gather all
the orphan children and their
statistic.
My guess is, there will not be a great
number of earth quake orphans. Most of
the children will be claimed by family
members, only a small number of them
will be entering the child welfare
system and the adoption will happen
later and slowly.
But what about the 10,000 more warm
hearted willling families? How great if
their love will eventialy help
the orphaned children of China? There
are 69,000 orphans currently living in
government run welfare homes. And there
are 573,000 orphans in total recorded by
the Civil Affair system with majority
living with relative or in private
welfare homes that also in need of
help.
Even if the families may not adopt a
child each, but they would help foster,
sponsor a child, many orphan children
will be benefited by these huge wave of
love in our society.
I urge all the families and people
interested in helping orphans do contact
their local authorities and request for
information and procedures of adoption,
foster care and sponsorship programs.
Maybe, we can truly make a difference in
Chinese orphans' life at this time.
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Saturday, May 31,
2008 (Beijing time)
Third
shippment from Guangzhou to Chengdu
These items include medicines, children's
supply and 150 tents.
Materials waiting for shipping at airport
The book bags arrived at ChengDu
he first 422 school bags arrived in Chengdu
to be distributed to the students on
Children's day.
School bags and other items arrived in
Chengdu from Beijing today
Have a check
Put books and pencils in bags
1:50pm
Through a
call this morning, we heard from Wenchuan
everyone receives 0.7 Jin rice per day, so
they don't need to eat instant food any
more. People use simple cookware they found
to cook for themselve. Thus they need rice,
flour, cooking oil,etc, the basic food
supply. Especially water purifiers, since
they still relay on the army to bring clean
water every day.
Officier
Zhang and his group found a 4 month old baby
girl in need of formula. They dont' have
any 0-6 month formula so they gave the
mother 30 eggs and some rice. Officier
Zhang and CHI are both trying to get the
formula to this family as soon we know of
anyone going into Wenchuan.
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Friday, May 30, 2008
(Beijing time)
2:26pm
We found
there is a greater need in Shanxi and Gansu
area now for the suppllies such as diapper,
formula, etc. CHI is sending our staff to
those two area orphanages to find out the
details and is gathering goods for those two
areas from now on.
We have
three staff in Sichuan still, Chen Hui in
Chengdu in charge of receiving and sending
suppllies,and XiaoNian, Jia Ying in Mian
Yang doing counseling for children.
Xiaonian works in Jiu Zhou statium, the
largest gathering place for Beichuan
vicitims, and Jiaying in AnXian, where the
new Beichuan settlement center.
They both need more volunteers to help to
continue and develop our work. Xiaonian
needs volunteers who have education
experience.
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Thursday, May 29, 2008 (Beijing time)
I got back to home last
night, at 10:00am. Kevin and the girls went to the
airport to meet me and Xiaowei. It feels like another
world to me being back to the sandy Beijing. I am back
in my office and meet up with all of our staff. Our
meeting room is now the storage for the supplies. I
found this stack of cards on my desk to be sent to
Sichuan children this morning. The sweet words speak so
much. We will send them with the first batch of school
bags to Sicuan before June 1st Children's day.
port From Earthquake Area
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Report From
Earthquake Area ( I )
Melody Zhang
Associate director of Children's Hope
International
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Wednesday, May 28,
2008 (Beijing time)
we will have 3 major works to support disaster victims:
1) Continue
sending materials
2) Set up psychological support team
3) Help the families with children to return to normal
lives
I had the idea of “Help disaster victim families with
children to return to normal lives ” when I was in
Wenchuan. Many families lost family members, lost houses
and almost anything; they are in extremely difficulty
situation. For example, the day before yesterday I said
that a family, grandmother and mother all died in the
quake. If we could help the father of this family find a
job, the whole situation of this family will be changed.
Therefore, we help this family in the same time we also
help the children of this family. We are still thinking
about the way how to “help disaster victim families with
children to return to normal lives”
The work of Psychological support team will be a
long-term work. In fact it may take 6 to 12 months for
doctor to
diagnose some children's
psychological stress problems. Therefore, psychological
support must uphold for a long time. This work also
requires a lot of experienced volunteers.
Material management is very complicated and arduous
work. We must send out the material on time to the
places where the disaster victims need.
Now we still need volunteers:
Among them, “material management” needs 2-3 volunteers,
“help disaster victim families with children” needs of
children 3-5 volunteers, psychological support team
needs 10-15 volunteers.
We hope that these areas of interest in the work of the
volunteers to contact us.
To be psychological support team volunteer, the
candidate must have psychological counseling, or kindergarten or
school teaching experiences. We will be able to train
volunteers to provide psychological counseling.
For some of the requirements of the volunteers:
1) Can bear hardships.
2) Can continue working for at
least one week;
3) Can follow the volunteers rules.
4) The fee of travel, hotel, and food must be covered by
volunteers themselves;
After 14 days in earthquake zone, Melody will return to
Beijing today.
”Good bye!” in the airport.
Zhao,
vice president of the Association of social workers
yesterday arrived in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. This
morning he talked with the director of Civic department
of Sichuan about the projects of support disaster
victims.
People
request the information of adopting orphans
Xiao Wei is our volunteer mom from US. Her husband
works for Harvard Medical school. They have a two
year old boy who is in Beijing waiting for mommy to
get home. We took the same flight on 28th to get
back to Beijing.
Tuesday,
May 27, 2008 (Beijing
time)
Now that I am back to
Chengdu being able to
use my own computer, I
can send the pictures of
the children one by one
in the next several
emails.
The director of
Wenchuan orphanage( also
known as Aba Orphanage,
they are the only
welfare home with
children in the entire
Wenchuan area), Mr. Lang
called me this afternoon
telling me they finally
had light at night on
the 25th, using the
generator we took to
them. The children were
all delighted!
Director Lang and his
children in Wenchuan
orphanage, he is called
Daddy Lang by every
child.
children of Wencuan
orphanage
This 18 year old , Min
Chuan has brittle-bone
disease. She was sent
to the orphange when she
was one. I want to
ask a friend in Beijing
who has twins with
brittle-bone and has
lots of knowlege of it,
if there is anything we
can do to help her.
They are three
biological sisters, the
oldest sister is Zhuoma
but she is not here
today. The youngest is
13 year old.
This little girl is so
sweet, she tried to feed
cherry to Officer Zhang,
who came with us in his
own SUV.
Officer Zhang later
decided to sponsor her
himself and gave me the
money before I left Wen
Chuan.
We soon will add names
to each picture I took
of the children and then
offer the opportunity
for sponsorship to
everyone who wants to
help them. I have
visited Deyang and
WenChuan orphanges and
took picture of each
child I saw that is
available for
soponsorship through
CHI.
twins
Wangli is a sweet 6 year
old. She missed the
little toy bus I gave
out and went back to her
room to cry.
My friend Lirui than
gave her all the food in
her bag and made Wangli
smile again.
This is the tents for
girls.
They went back to the
orphange to get beds and
other items inspect of
the danger and rush
back.
supplies we brought
Boys ready to be
sponsored.
I realized after
visiting the orphanage
in person that they
don't have 20 children
under 2 years old.
It must be the dialect
director Lang speaks
that confused me.
However, I am still very
glad we made the trip to
bring the supply to
them. Especially after
seeing the condition
they live in.
The children gave us
cherries to say thank
you.
*****
It took us
one whole day on the
bus, from 7:00am
26th,yesterday from
Wenchuan to get to
Chengdu this morning
27th around 7:30am.
We sit in this position
for 24 hours. We also
had to change buses in 4
places during the trip.
Like Olympic torches,
the drivers each drove
one part of the trip so
we passengers traveled
non stop.
We arrived
in Chengdu finally
People come to families
to look for a new life
I was so happy to sit by
my computer in my Chendu
hotel room.
Ms. Liao & Li Rui
Ms.Liao the hotel owner
was one of the
volunteers went to
Wenchuan with us. We
are so happy to see her
again.
I wrote on
the road, in the morning
of 26th as we left
Wenchuan:
"Goodbye
Wenchuan, the city got
to be known by the world
on the day of May 12th,
2008. I will remember
you forever after being
with you for the last 4
days. I will remember
the ruins, the tears,
the loved ones who left
this world and the love
you showed to each other
and to everyone. I will
be back, I promise, as
long as you will remain
exist. Director Lang,
Captain Zhang, the
brother who lost the mom
and the wife, the
children in the
orphanage. I will get
started to help you as
soon as I get back to
Chengdu and Beijing. Be
safe!"
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Monday, May
26, 2008 (Beijing time)
Leaving from Wenchuan to Chengdu, I would like to
quickly join Chengdu, Mianyang and Beijing's relief
work.
MaErKang is the capital of Aba
Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture. The escort team leader is
a Tibetan young man. His beautiful Tibetan folk songs
take us back to the normal people pragmatic attitude."
Leaving from Wenchuan, I would like to quickly join
Chengdu, Mianyang and Beijing's relief work.
Tibetan living areas on the side of road in MaErKang
 There are a lot of volunteers
in MaErkang. People even can have warm food here.
 Here is the place
where we spent night 4 days ago. Then we had 9 people
but we had no idea about the road situation.Today, we
will change the bus to Chengdu here.
 People here are calm although
there are aftershocks every day
 I worried about power failure, no water here
 Somebody took this
picture for us - we fell in sleep in the bus
"In the past few days, every morning, more than 100
buses leave Wenchuan. The buses sent the victims out of
here. The first groups were students. But more people or
fewer vehicles. Linked to our hard-won only four seats ,
The ride back to Chengdu, which is to send their
children to evacuate the scene Wenchuan. I do not know
when such a separation can be reunited. "
Goodbye, Wenchuan!
"May 26 at 7:20am, we left Wenchuan. Goodbye! Since four
days ago I came to Wenchuan, people’s tears, the broken
buildings, the love of alive people and the
Spirit of dead people, all of those will blend into my
life forever. I must come back. Mr. Lang, (Note:
director of Aba orphanage), children, Mr. Zhang (Note:
Meishan in Sichuan Armed Police Corps Detachment), and
Xiao-Wei Di (note: who lost mother and wife), I will
soon contact you to help you all! "
Sunday, May 25, 2008 (Beijing time)
At 8:00pm, we
received Melody's call:
Today is a very smooth,
very good day. The volunteers who visited Wenchuan
orphanage now became the best friends each other. The
four persons are Li Rui, the female reporter of Jing
Newspaper, Zhao Qian and Huang Jian-feng, reporters of
Chongqing Television Station, and me.
According to our experience of driving in the earthquake
area, it will be OK to drive in the morning, but the
road is dangerous in the afternoon due to falling stones
caused by strong wind. So this morning we got off at
6:00am.
It is about 40 kilometers from Wenchuan to Maoxian. It
would take not more than one hour normally. However,
because of poor road conditions, landslides, we tried
twice but failed to go through. 5 team members gave up.
Today, 4 of us tried again. We have to stop driving to
wait for road repairing. It is very dangerous to park on
the road in the mountain. You don’t know where the rocks
would be falling down - the rocks above our heads as if
the sword of Damocles.
To be honest, my experience in the disaster area, what I
saw, the difficulties I met, are over load. I almost
can’t stand. Yesterday, I had great emotions. Sorry
about that. But one thing has been supporting me, I have
been very grateful to have such an opportunity here to
help the people of Sichuan, to have such a chance to
share my love.
Today, I am particularly happy on the road and I have a
feeling that we would be successful to send the material
to Wenchuan orphanage. We felt so comfortable that Isome
of us even fell into sleep in the car!
When we took two vehicles (a military truck, a Jeep)
loaded with supplies to Wenchuan orphanage, the director
of the orphanage Mr.Lang was too excited to say
anything. The orphanage has 31 children and six elderly
people. I took pictures for each child. I will send
those pictures to our office when I find out Internet
service. The supplies we took here piled up like a small
hill: include a generator, children's products, daily
necessities and even the toilet paper.
Tomorrow, I will return to Chengdu. I will discuss with
Mianyang and Chengdu’s colleagues about the next plan. I
have some preliminary planning and thinking, the basic
point is that as a private charitable organization, we
really need help local people during their most
difficult stage; when everyone's attention gradually
shifted to the normal lives we really need set up a
long-term program to help the children affected by the
earthquake.
Now the most important work should be resettle the
people in the disaster areas. A lot of people mainly
rely on self-help, but for them, it is very difficult.
The private charitable organization and agencies can do
something in the resettlement for the people of disaster
areas.
Yesterday, I mentioned a family; the first name of this
family is Tang. Their mother and grandmother were dead.
Only father and two children are alive. It is a typical
victim’s family after the earthquake. The sister-in-law
of this family is pregnant for 6 months. She doesn’t
have enough food and have no clear water to take bath.
The father of this family can drive, I think if I took
him to Beijing he may find out a job. Anybody who saw
the sad situation in the disaster area, really want to
do something to help those victims of disasters.
*****
This morning at 6:30am, Melody and the team started to
drive to Mao County. They finally arrived at the
orphanage at noon.
Bad road situation
Melody with the children of orphanage***
photos from Melody last night：
the situation of road May 24th morning
people going home on foot
Saturday, May 24, 2008 (Beijing | |