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Dorothee
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| 06:09 PM Jan 14 2022

Dorothee

Germany

When I took the bus yesterday the bus driver had the radio on, but I’m not sure which channel it was. Anyway a news reporter talked about conflicts all around the world. This country for example faces militant criminal groups that recruit young boys against their will and against the will of their families. Also these criminals displace the population of entire villages making them refugees.

| 05:49 PM Nov 25 2018

Dorothee

Germany

On November 15th a militant group attacked a refugee camp in Alindao in the Central African Republic and murdered about 60 inhabitants of this camp. UN-soldiers just stood by instead of fending off the attackers. Current state of the investigations according to ‘GfbV’ is however that there were just too many of the attackers. They outnumbered these UN-soldiers by who knows how many people.

| 09:55 AM Nov 18 2017

Dorothee

Germany

Re-upload 1:
When I went to church last Sunday, they spread some leaflets there concerning the disease Buruli ulcer and an aid-organization that helps patients: When we think of deadly diseases that threaten hundreds of people in Africa each year, most of us think of HIV, Ebola, malaria, yellow fever or leprosy. Due to the fact that so little is known about how this disease is transmitted and also due to this disease usually not killing the infected person, Buruli ulcer is ignored by most media. However our church community decided that this disease as well as the organization that helps patients should mentioned nonetheless:
Buruli ulcer weakens the immune system and dissolves soft tissue to the point of the infected person either being dead – due to the immune system not being able to fend off diseases anymore – or paralysed – due to too much tissue being destroyed – or scarred. Combinations are also possible.
Anyway the tricky thing is that this disease doesn’t cause any pain. Not even children find this disease in any way painful. Thus they usually don’t discover that something is wrong until it is too late. Then even if you find out that something isn’t right and you rush to the closest doctor, you have to be very lucky in a country like Central Africa – where most cases are reported – if you get to a doctor who is skilled enough to recognize this as Buruli ulcer, if the doctor wants to see you immediately and if there is a hospital nearby that has the gadgets and the skilled stuff needed to treat you.
DAHW Deutsche Lepra- und Tuberkulosehilfe e.V.
IBAN: DE35790500000000009696
BIC: BYLADEM1SWU
Conto-nr: 9696
Bank account: 790 500 00
Sparkasse Mainfranken-Würzburg
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Re-upload 2: Due to this difficult situation many aid-organizations are overstrained and don’t do more than emergency-aid.
The only organization that does more than just that right now is the “Welthungerhilfe” – Deutsche Welthungerhilfe e.V. Sparkasse KölnBonn Conto: 1115 IBAN: DE15370501980000001115 BIC: COLSDE33.
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Re-upload 3: You can still donate to “Doctors Without Borders”. In other countries they are called “médecins sans frontières” and “Aerzte ohne Grenzen”.
If you like Germany, you can even donate to “German Doctors E.V.
EKK-Bank
Bank Account Number: 4 88 888 0
Bank Code: 520 604 10
For further questions please contact
info@german-doctors.de
They speak English!
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Re-upload 4: According to the website where I found it, this is a former street child living in the Central African Republic. Fortunately he has now a chance of education and a better life. If you want to know more about street children in this area you definetly should visit this website “http://www.merlin.org.uk/Where-we-work/Central-African-Republic.aspx”. There you even get the chance to get involved if you want to.

| 09:49 AM Nov 18 2017

Dorothee

Germany

“GfbV” says that this Wednesday the German Bundestag decided to send another 900 soldiers to Central Africa. Critics doubt that this will help as local police officers and soldiers probably will still be overburdened with the situation. Critics say it would have been better to put the money this will cost into re-building what militant groups destroyed over there.

| 11:05 AM Aug 26 2017

Dorothee

Germany

>“Tagesschau” says that the Human Rights Watch now declared the South West of the Central African Republic a conflict-free place. All but one ethnic group fled this area, making ethnic conflicts impossible.
>“Tagesschau” says that in the Central African Republic almost all diamonds are smuggled to Cameroon by the miners working in these diamond-mines. Reason is that official miners are paid very low and are exploited.

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