Haiti -vädjan om hjälp
Det har kommit ett nödrop från IBBY:s representant i Haiti, Jocelyne Trouiilot till IBBYs EC (executive committe)
Hon beskriver ett scenario som är omskakande och svårt att greppa. Denna berättelse är så stark och omskakande att den verkligen uppmanar till handling! Det finns möjlighet att stödja Haiti genom IBBYs Children in Crisis Fund eller sprida information om möjligheterna att göra det.
Den som är övertygad om att böcker och berättelser verkligen kan spela en stark läkande roll för barn och ungdomar i fysiska och psykiska kriser bör absolut ta del av nedanstående brev. Gå till Children in Crisis Fund
Här är brevet med svar från IBBYs Executive Director, Liz Page.
IBBY Friends around the world Over the weekend our friend and colleague Jocelyne Trouiilot made contact through email. It is such a relief to hear that she has survived!She writes:I thank all of you of IBBY for your message. I had no access to internet until today and it is very shaky. I am now in a black out with only minutes left on the computer.
Universite Caraibe and most universities in Port au Prince are completely destroyed. Most schools too. Thousands of school children and university students are under those buildings. Many cadavers have been removed from the streets by the state today . We have survivors. Thousands of houses have collapsed. Riche and poor and many middle class have lost families and houses. I cannot described the horrors.
I have seen so many corpses today, many of my own students dead or injured, I don’t want to describe it.
Hopefully, my family is well. My house is partially destroyed but we hope to make it.
I hope to be able to coordinate some help next week. For now, we have to bury the dead. The children of Haiti will need some psychological help and bibliotherapy will certainly bring some heal. Schools will not reopen until September or October. The buildings and the teachers are not there. We will have to find other places. many churches have been destroyed too.
Thank you again for your support.
By the way, most of the books in storage by us or directly at the schools have been destroyed. I asked today to get them on the debris but I understood the people were more concerned about the corpses that started to smell and to find some survivors.
We stay positive but for most of us, we will need some strong will.
Talk to you soon
Jocelyne
IBBY is full of remarkable people!To help her we need to collect funds. She has been working on using books in Creole and training people in the use of books in healing: now she is back to square one and much build up her supply of books and team once again. Many of her colleagues will be coping with their own trauma and sorrows. There is a lot to do.
We are appealing to you today for support for the Haiti earthquake disaster. It is believed that the best way to do this is through donations to the Children in Crisis Fund. Therefore, IBBY will accept donations in trust for IBBY Haiti to help the surviving children and their families through the healing power of books and storytelling, bibliotherapy and the reconstruction of libraries.
To donate is simple: go to http://www.ibby.org and follow the path to Children in Crisis from the home page.Thank you.
IBBY
Bringing boos and children together
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Liz Page
Executive Director
