Newsline Church of Brother
Nuwamba 6, 2007
Ma'aikatar Bala'i ta 'yan'uwa na shirin mayar da martani na dogon lokaci ga Jamhuriyar Dominican da sauran kasashen da guguwar ruwan zafi Noel ta shafa, wadda ta zubar da ruwan sama akalla inci 21 tare da haddasa ambaliyar ruwa. An ba da tallafi daga Asusun Bala'i na Gaggawa, kuma an ba da kuɗaɗen gaggawa ga ma'aikatan mishan Irv da Nancy Heishman a DR, yayin da suke amsa buƙatu tsakanin ikilisiyoyi na Cocin ’yan’uwa da ke wurin.
Har ila yau Hukumar Kula da Bala'i ta Yara na ci gaba da gudanar da ayyukanta a kudancin California a wannan makon, tare da taimakon yaran iyalai da gobarar daji ta shafa. Sabis na Bala'i na Yara, Ma'aikatun Bala'i na 'Yan'uwa, da Asusun Bala'i na Gaggawa duk shirye-shiryen Ikilisiyar Babban Kwamitin 'Yan'uwa ne.
Heishmans ya ce: “Mun yi godiya da muka ba da rahoton cewa da alama dukan ’yan’uwan Dominican suna da lafiya. “Mun sami damar tuntuɓar kusan dukkanin majami’un Dominican da fastoci. Babu shakka wasu daga cikinsu sun yi lahani ga amfanin gonakinsu,” inji su. “An kwashe wasu iyalai na ɗan lokaci kaɗan. Amma a wannan lokacin fastoci suna ba da rahoton cewa su da membobinsu sun shawo kan guguwar da kyau.” Heishmans ya kara da cewa ginin coci daya yana da kafa da rabi na ruwa a wurinsa mai tsarki.
Gwamnatin Dominican ta bayar da rahoton mutuwar mutane 85 daga guguwar da ambaliyar ruwa, inda mutane 45 suka bace, sannan an bayar da rahoton mutuwar mutane 57 a Haiti. Fiye da mutane 58,000 aka kwashe a cikin DR, an kiyasta cewa gidaje 14,500 sun lalace ko kuma sun lalace, kuma kusan mutane 60,000 sun rasa matsuguni, tare da barnatar amfanin gona mai yawa.
Kyautar $ 5,000 daga Asusun Bala'i na Gaggawa yana tallafawa aikin Servicios Sociales de las Iglesias Dominicanas (SSID), wanda ya fara amsa gaggawa ga bukatun gaggawa na ruwan sha, abinci, da tsari. SSID ƙungiyar haɗin gwiwa ce ta Sabis na Duniya na Coci a cikin DR. "A cikin dogon lokaci, za mu goyi bayan tallafin Hidimar Duniya na Ikilisiya wanda zai mai da hankali kan farfadowa, sake ginawa, da yuwuwar asarar noma," in ji Roy Winter, darektan Ma'aikatun Bala'i na 'yan'uwa. "Bugu da ƙari, idan Cocin 'yan'uwa a cikin DR yana da ayyukan mayar da martani, za mu bincika yadda za mu tallafa wa ƙoƙarinsu."
Bayan guguwar, Heishmans sun fara isar da jigilar kajin gwangwani da aka shirya kuma aka ba da su ta hanyar Aikin Canning na Nama na Gundumar Pennsylvania ta Kudancin Pennsylvania da Gundumar Mid-Atlantic, kuma shirin Albarkatun Kaya a New Windsor (Md.) Cibiyar Sabis ta aika. . Sabis na Duniya na Coci ya biya kuɗin jigilar kayayyaki. Heishmans ya ce "Wadannan akwatunan kaji za su zama abin ƙarfafawa ga iyalai a cikin majami'unmu yayin da suke komawa ga tsarin yau da kullun," in ji Heishmans.
A cikin wasu labaran agajin bala'o'i, martanin Sabis na Bala'i na Yara game da gobarar da aka yi a kudancin California na kankara, a cewar wata sanarwa daga Roy Winter da Judy Bezon, mataimakiyar darektan Sabis na Bala'i na Yara. "Aikin mu a yankin San Diego ana sa ran zai rufe a karshen mako, amma yana ci gaba a yau a wurare biyu," in ji bayanin. "A yankin San Bernardino, an rufe martani a filin baje kolin Orange Show jiya."
Gloria Cooper, manajan aikin don mayar da martani, ta ruwaito cewa Sabis na Bala'i na Yara kuma yana ba da amsa na ɗan gajeren lokaci a wannan makon a Lady of the Lake Catholic Church a Arrowhead, inda masu sa kai za su taimaka wajen kula da yaran iyalan da abin ya shafa na 'yan kwanaki. Ikilisiyar ba wurin Red Cross ko FEMA ba ne, amma tana mai da hankali kan yin hidima ga mutanen da aka ware waɗanda ke tsoron zuwa inda za a iya samun FEMA. Masu aikin sa kai na Bala'i na Yara su ma sun yi shirin yin aiki gobe a Cibiyar Taimakon Bala'i na FEMA da ke Running Springs, yayin da gundumar ke rarraba tamburan abinci. "Suna sa ran ranar aiki sosai," in ji Cooper.
"Na ci gaba da yin godiya sosai da kuma mamakin yadda kowa ya amsa a kudancin California," in ji Winter. "A cikin kusan masu amsawa 30, mutane uku ne kawai suka yi tafiya daga wajen jihar, daga Oregon. Idan muka gama, wannan rukunin zai yi aiki a akalla cibiyoyi bakwai daban-daban. Yawancin wannan martanin ya yiwu ne saboda aikin tantancewar farko da kuma ƙungiyar Tawagar Ba da Amsa da gaggawa ta Kudancin California." Sharon Gilbert ne ya jagoranci tawagar masu saurin amsawa.
Asusun Bala'i na Gaggawa ya ba da tallafi biyu da suka shafi gobarar California: $ 5,000 don tallafawa aikin Ayyukan Bala'i na Yara; da $5,000 don amsa kiran Sabis na Duniya na Coci don taimakon kayan aiki, tura ma'aikata don taimakawa tare da horarwa, tallafawa tsarin farfadowa na dogon lokaci, da tallafi ga al'ummomin da ba su da rauni.
Kyauta ga waɗannan ƙoƙarin mayar da martani na gaggawa ya kamata a aika zuwa Asusun Bala'i na Gaggawa, Church of the Brother General Board, 1451 Dundee Ave., Elgin, IL 60120. Duk da yake kyaututtukan da ba a ba da izini ba sune mafi taimako, masu ba da gudummawa za su iya zaɓar su ba da gudummawa ga “Tropical Storm Noel" ko "Sabis na Bala'i na Yara."
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Cheryl Brumbaugh-Cayford, darektan sabis na labarai na Cocin of the Brother General Board ne ya samar da Cocin of the Brothers Newsline. Irv da Nancy Heishman, Jon Kobel, da Roy Winter sun ba da gudummawa ga wannan rahoton. Ana iya sake buga labaran labarai idan an ambaci Newsline a matsayin tushen. Don karɓar Layin Labarai ta e-mail je zuwa http://listserver.emountain.net/mailman/listinfo/newsline. Aika labarai ga editan a cobnews@brethren.org. Don ƙarin labarai da fasali na Ikilisiya na ’yan’uwa, ku yi rajista ga mujallar “Manzo”; kira 800-323-8039 ext. 247.