Update GKI Humanitarian 8-9 November 2010 (En)

Update Tim Gerakan Kemanusiaan Indonesia

(Tim GKI) 8-9 November 2010

Mentawai

8/11/10

1) Team GKI Mentawai who are exhausted will be replaced by fresh volunteers, coordinated by Yusak Ismanto, will be dispatched on 8/11/10 to Padang.

2) Meanwhile, the first team distributed relief to the village of Muane – Pagai Selatan in the form of:

a. 40 jars

b. 40 scoopers

c. 40 kerosene lamp + kerosene,

d. Some new clothes

e. 40 pots

(Rasid Rachman)

Jogja

8/11/10

1) Team GKI based on the request of Team GKI Jogja prepared 5 doctors from the Medical Faculty of UKRIDA Jakarta in order to reinforce the Jogja medical team.

2) Since 29/10/10 until 8/11-10 Tim GKI Jogja had cared for 374 patients

a. 28/10/10: 109 people

b. 29/10.10: 20 people

c. 30/10/10: rain of ashes, all activities postponed, team withdrawn for safety

d. 1/11/10: Merapi erupted again. Volunteers are withdrawn for safety

e. 5/11/10: 83 people

f. 6/11/10: 65 people

g. 7/11/10: Sunday, no activities

h. 8/11/10: 97 people

3) 2 patients submitted to hospital, a patient submitted to the psychiatry ward.

4) Services for children are held every day in Wedi (transferred from Kemalang barracks),

5) Today Team GKI Jogja coordinated with UNICEF which also operates in Wedi.

9/11/10

1. Is reported that the situation changed because the refugees in the camps felt discontent. One of the reasons was, although the food area aplenty but the queue line was too long and took too much time.

2. The development in Maguwo stadium and bigger refugee camps are not so pleasant due to the inability of Satkorlak to handle the situation properly.

3. Most of the refugees chooses to go out and look for new refugee camps themselves, most stayed in front of the houses of people in the villages near jogja.

4. This has made giving services and relief difficult.

5. The incident caused some social unrest, the villagers felt uneasy because everyday they have to supply the runaway refugees from government camps. Most of the villagers do not have the capability to help the refugees.

6. For the wandering refugees Team GKI Jogja changed the strategy and started to supply the abandoned groups. In which it also helped the uneasy villagers. The action was done selectively.

Gratefully, the refugees in the GKI camps stayed, probably because of the better coordinated and systematic services being given. (Paulus Lie).