viernes, 22 de enero de 2010
Clinica y Distribución de Comida
La escuela de Ananda Marga en Bourdon Port au prince se ha transformado en un centro de primero ausilio para el vecindario. Ademas, miles de sobrevivientes al terremoto recibeno a diario alimentos para sostentarse en un contexto de destruccion y falta de recurso. Ddi y todos los niños y niñas que estan a su cargo estan bien. Acampan en casetas junto con el resto de los vecinos pero la escuela esta de pié. Didi y su grupo de voluntarios -jovenes de Europa y Estados Unidos- proveen un gran apoyo la comunidad, animando a todos con su buen humor y su incansable servicio.
lunes, 18 de enero de 2010
Inspiring Eye Witness Report on Earthquake
News from Haiti (On the Ground)
Enero16, 10:43pm
UNC Asheville graduate Amber Munger is in Haiti working with the Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team. She sent this e-mail Thursday to UNCA political science professor Mark Gibney.
In In my thirteen years of working in Haiti, not once before have I seen such massive destruction as we are experiencing now. Nor have I seen such motivation, determination, compassion and solidarity among people.
When we entered Pòtoprens (Creole for Port-au-Prince) after the quake struck, the city had fallen and was continuing to fall as a result of continuous aftershocks.
The streets were full of people sitting together. Everyone was sitting in the middle of the roads for fear that the houses would continue to fall on them. They were singing. The whole city was singing.
They were singing songs of solidarity. They were singing songs of thanks and praise that they were still able to sing and to be together. These people have lost everything. The city is now a city of refugees. But they are putting their voices together to be thankful.
After recovering our loved ones that we could find from the wreckage, we spent the rest of the night assisting others in the street, strategizing and attempting to rest to prepare for the coming days.
The whole night we passed hearing people singing, people screaming and crying when their loved ones died. People were dying all around. And the tremors continued all night.
The hospitals are full and cannot accept more people. All over PAP (Port-au-Prince) there is danger from the destruction.
What is needed now is a way to get people out of the city. I am working with several organizations on a coordinated disaster response that is focusing on reinforcing the countryside so that people can leave Pòtoprens and go back to their families in the province.
Almost everyone in PAP has family in the countryside. The efforts that I am supporting are helping Haitians to support their family members in leaving PAP and in receiving the care that they need when they leave.
If not organized strategically, this disaster will soon have huge consequences to the food producing regions that depend on PAP to purchase their product and services.
We need to reinforce these areas and set up services in the communes so that people can flee the cities and find the support that they need in the communes. We need to support grass-roots organizations in the commune by sending them resources to buy food, by sending them medical experts and materials, and provide them with other basic services that will support them in staying in the province and getting their lives together.
I am working with grass-roots leaders in zones all over PAP as well as leaders from the provinces to identify strategies to move the people out and to assist the people in PAP who cannot leave in finding food, water, shelter and medical care…
… We need help. We desperately need money to be sent to use for gas, transport, food, supplies coming from the U.S. such as medical supplies and Web phones, and to pay Haitians working to help Haitians. Many Haitians are working together without compensation to help one another.
But this is not sustainable over the next month as resources begin to dwindle and people's needs become desperate.
We need to be able to support their work.
Please help!
Amber Munger graduated from UNCA in 2000 with a bachelor's in environmental studies before earning a law degree from the University of Oregon.
Enero16, 10:43pm
UNC Asheville graduate Amber Munger is in Haiti working with the Ananda Marga Universal Relief Team. She sent this e-mail Thursday to UNCA political science professor Mark Gibney.
In In my thirteen years of working in Haiti, not once before have I seen such massive destruction as we are experiencing now. Nor have I seen such motivation, determination, compassion and solidarity among people.
When we entered Pòtoprens (Creole for Port-au-Prince) after the quake struck, the city had fallen and was continuing to fall as a result of continuous aftershocks.
The streets were full of people sitting together. Everyone was sitting in the middle of the roads for fear that the houses would continue to fall on them. They were singing. The whole city was singing.
They were singing songs of solidarity. They were singing songs of thanks and praise that they were still able to sing and to be together. These people have lost everything. The city is now a city of refugees. But they are putting their voices together to be thankful.
After recovering our loved ones that we could find from the wreckage, we spent the rest of the night assisting others in the street, strategizing and attempting to rest to prepare for the coming days.
The whole night we passed hearing people singing, people screaming and crying when their loved ones died. People were dying all around. And the tremors continued all night.
The hospitals are full and cannot accept more people. All over PAP (Port-au-Prince) there is danger from the destruction.
What is needed now is a way to get people out of the city. I am working with several organizations on a coordinated disaster response that is focusing on reinforcing the countryside so that people can leave Pòtoprens and go back to their families in the province.
Almost everyone in PAP has family in the countryside. The efforts that I am supporting are helping Haitians to support their family members in leaving PAP and in receiving the care that they need when they leave.
If not organized strategically, this disaster will soon have huge consequences to the food producing regions that depend on PAP to purchase their product and services.
We need to reinforce these areas and set up services in the communes so that people can flee the cities and find the support that they need in the communes. We need to support grass-roots organizations in the commune by sending them resources to buy food, by sending them medical experts and materials, and provide them with other basic services that will support them in staying in the province and getting their lives together.
I am working with grass-roots leaders in zones all over PAP as well as leaders from the provinces to identify strategies to move the people out and to assist the people in PAP who cannot leave in finding food, water, shelter and medical care…
… We need help. We desperately need money to be sent to use for gas, transport, food, supplies coming from the U.S. such as medical supplies and Web phones, and to pay Haitians working to help Haitians. Many Haitians are working together without compensation to help one another.
But this is not sustainable over the next month as resources begin to dwindle and people's needs become desperate.
We need to be able to support their work.
Please help!
Amber Munger graduated from UNCA in 2000 with a bachelor's in environmental studies before earning a law degree from the University of Oregon.
domingo, 17 de enero de 2010
Catástrofe humanitaria en Haití
Las tres canarias que están en Haití se
encuentran a salvo
Una de ellas, Lourdes Gómez Marrero, es pedagoga e imparte clases en Anse-A-Pitres
ANTONIO HERRERO | SANTA CRUZ
DE TENERIFE Las tres canarias
cooperantes que trabajan en Haití se
encuentran a salvo y anoche dos de ellas
viajaban desde la República Dominicana
hasta la capital de Haití, Puerto Príncipe,
para colaborar en las labores de ayuda a
los damnificados.
Dos de las cooperantes son de Tenerife.
Lourdes Gómez Marrero, de 35 años de
edad, es pedagoga e imparte clases en la
escuela Anse-a-Pitres, muy próxima a la
frontera con República Dominicana.
Lourdes pertenece a la ONG Maye, al igual
que otra chicharrera, de nombre Diana,
que llevaba en el país caribeño dos meses
y tenía intención de regresar a Tenerife el próximo día 22.
Viaja a bordo de una moto. La tercera cooperante canaria es Carmen Julia Martínez
Ramos, más conocida como Didí, natural de Gran Canaria y que lleva en Haití quince años.
Lourdes Marrero habló ayer con la secretaria de la ONG Maye, Nuria Martín García, a quien
relató que se dirigía a bordo de una moto con otra profesora nativa hacia la capital, Puerto
Príncipe. Lourdes Marrero trabaja en el proyecto subvencionado por el Ayuntamiento de
Santa Cruz de Tenerife de dotar a una escuela con comedor para doscientos cincuenta
niños, con edades comprendidas entre los tres y los cinco años, repartidos en dos turnos.
Anoche fue imposible contactar telefónicamente con Lourdes o alguna de sus compañeras
debido a que Haití se encuentra prácticamente incomunicado.
EDUCACION EN LAS ESCUELAS ANANDA MARGA DE HAITI
El horario escolar recoge todas las materias obligatorias con el mismo requerimiento de cualquier otra escuela del país pero con mejores resultados; dado que la ratio es menor (hasta un máximo de 40 alumnos por maestra, siendo que la pública supera los 80), que reciben clases de apoyo en los casos que lo requieran, seguimiento pedagógico personalizado y fundamentalmente por basarse en un sistema pedagógico adaptado a las verdaderas necesidades del menor. Dicho sistema recibe el nombre de Educación Neohumanista y sus principios vienen a constituir el encuentro entre diferentes escuelas de formación humanista vinculadas a la naturaleza y la espiritualidad del ser humano en comunión con su entorno.
La mayor ventaja pedagógica que presenta la Educación Neohumanista en general, es que facilita el desarrollo del aprendizaje en el menor partiendo de su propia realidad física, mental y espiritual, recogiendo la diversidad de necesidades que dichas realidades presentan. En un entorno de necesidades básicas, como es Haití, primará la primera de dichas realidades, sin descuidar por eso el resto. Es así que se introducen en el horario escolar, además de las materias académicas tradicionales y de manera transversal a las mismas, los siguientes contenidos en orden prioritario, consolidándolos progresivamente en dicho orden y de manera personalizada: Alimentación e Higiene, respeto mutuo y convivencia pacífica, respeto y cuidado del medio ambiente, derechos humanos y derechos del menor, control del estrés y concentración a través de la música y el movimiento, habilidades sociales y de comunicación, creatividad, yoga y meditación.
Lo realmente admirable de esta estas escuelas es la manera de lograr una enseñanza de calidad con las enormes limitaciones económicas que padece, sin grandes inversiones, utilizando los recursos disponibles en la naturaleza y la buena predisposición y voluntarismo (eso es lo más importante) de mucha gente. Sin embargo, los promotores de cada centro luchan día a día por la mejora constante y por incrementar las posibilidades físicas de acceso, para responder a la creciente demanda y ofrecer cada vez a más niños y niñas la posibilidad de crecer en ambientes física y psíquicamente saludables.
sábado, 16 de enero de 2010
Escuela Sobrevive Terremoto
la Escuela Ananda Marga de Bourdon, en Puerto Principe, Haiti, sigue de pie despues del desastroso
terremoto del 12 de enero de 2009. Didi Ananda Jiivaprema y su alegre banda de nenas y nenes están a salvo.
Según las telegráficas noticias que nos han llegado el día 14, Didi estaba lista para reabrir la clínica, así que
asumimos que también el doctor que ofrece voluntariamente su trabajo también ha salido ileso. No sabemos
mucho sobre los casi 300 niños y niñas que frecuentan la escuela.
Si quieren saber mas sobre la labor de Didi pueden visitar la pagina de Web:
http://www.thefinephoto.com/Haití/Ninos_sin_Fronteras_Haiti/Bienvenidos.html
o ver el video realizado en otra escuelita de la frontera con República Dominicana:
http://www.planetafeliz.org/Espanol/Haiti_files/Planeta%20Feliz%20Haiti_480x360.mov
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