Adana refugee camp – May 2021
On May 27, 2021 Arianna, Anna and I leave Bergamo for a new mission to support the refugee camp of Adana, Turkey. With the help of our interpreter Yahya we bring:
-Food support: powdered milk, voucher market and food aid for about 850 families are distributed.
-Medical support: we buy medicines on site with which Anna visits and treats about 130 refugees in 4 days. Most hadn't seen a doctor in 7 months. Other more complex operations not possible in the field are attempted in the nearest hospitals.
-Educational support: the rainbow tent is supplied with new material and we carry out the first live virtual twinning with an elementary class in Italy.
-Emotional support: sometimes we pause and stop being president, doctor, coordinator, interpreter, photographer. We try for a moment to be friends, playmates and briefly relieve their sense of abandonment in a limbo between a violent past and an uncertain future.
We are rewarded with hospitality, generosity and smiles.
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