I was reading this blog NowandEver and there was this beautiful account from IraLippke, a designer currently working in a Bali orphanage, on what he and his buddies did and saw in Achech during the Tsunami. He was talking about how it was so hard to get in to help as the government had all these rules that all foreign help had to go through them. It was saddening to note that amidst this chaos, the government medical officers there still adopted a couldn’t care less attitude.
“A day later hundreds of Medical workers arrived from Southern Sumatra. They were paid by the government to be there, but I still cannot figure out why they hardly worked – even when we were exhausted and would ask them to help. There would literally be hundreds of trained medical workers taking it easy, laughing, smoking, and playing basket-ball around the corner from where there were all these patients desperately needing their care.”
However, as a Malaysian, I was proud to read this:
“Finally we had people who would act like there was a real natural disaster here and that we could still save people’s lives. There was another group of doctors from Malaysia who were amazing and understood what was needed,...
And I totally agreed with this:
I believe that love and friendship is how wars are won before they begin, and the Kingdom of God is extended through loving hands of mercy.
Read the full account at the blog, with pictures.
Nothing is worse than not being able to help when help is needed. Thankfully there are people who cary on and don’t stop for other than sleep and food. We need that kind of people rigth about now – 3 week since the disaster!
hi there..i was revisiting the sites of everyone who had left a comment on my blog and you were among one of the first ones, so i thought i’d say hi again 🙂
letti