Dear friends all over,
We've recently sent to you the latest news, dated 13.11., as for the situation in Transcarpathia. Every hour we've got more and more e-mails and calls from different persons with their wish and readiness to help anyhow. We are trying to keep people, who have already started looking for providing aid to our region, informed of the trials and suggestions of others. Therefore, please find in below Enclosure the copies of some letters and contact details of these people. As humanitarian aid is concerned, according to the president edict dated 7.11. on the measures to tackle the effects of the flood in Transcarpathia, Article 6 stated that the regional authorities must provide efficient registration and quick address passing of humanitarian aid.
For you to know that there must be some documents to be presented at the border:
The Customs procedures must not be paid for humanitarian aid. You should also know that there are already the cases when humanitarian aid is stolen or distributed incorrectly. People do not trust the local authorities and their bank accounts. Therefore it is better to provide a special purpose and address aid directed to people and effected localities. LIK as NGO has some contacts in the region and could provide its assistance in contacting right people there. One of the contact addresses which could be used:
Carpathian Agency of Regional Development
Rakhiv 295800
Myru Str.1
Tel./fax +380 3132 21406
Vasil Homa, a head of the organisation
Bank details:
Account 26008202048001
Rakhiv branch of Agroprombank Ukraine
Code 09312072 MFO 312077
Next week we will try to get the necessary official documents from regional authorities for LIK as NGO and do the procedures to be registered at the Transcarpathian Customs. In this way LIK could officially provide its assistance as for humanitarian aid. Thank all of you for your concern for our region.
Stay in touch,
LIK staff
Enclosure.
1 Beat Leuthardt leu@pobox.ch I am motivating Swiss Radio stuff as well as my German newspapers to pay attention on the things happening in Transkarpatia and Hungary.
2 Sylvia Kutzer KUTZERSY@riea.MHS.compuserve.com
I hope I will be able to get some help going via Rotary International - we have an international Disaster Relief fund and if I can get one of the Austrian districts to put this through officially it would be broadcast to all Rotary clubs world-wide. I cannot promise but I am doing my best. Unfortunately the massive disaster in Nicaragua and Honduras is getting so much publicity andhelp at the moment that any smallerdisastes seem to be overshadowed by that. This is probably the reason there was so little media coverage.
I have passed on all the information you e-mailed me to our staff member in charge of E. European area and I hope something will materialise.
3 Tom Trier ttrier@image.dk
Yesterday I have sent an appeal to a dozen of Danish aid organisations. Hope they will be able to act quickly. I have also contacted the Rusyn organisations in the US, who in turn have discussed the issue with the Red Cross. According to them the Minsk office of the Red Cross is preparing to act on the disaster.
Please add the following addresses to your mailinglist for future messages on the floods:
ggressa@carpatho-rusyn.org , walter@infoukes.com , rusin@vadium.sk
4 Gregory Gressa ggressa@carpatho-rusyn.org
Dear friends - Thank you for keeping us informed. We have created a web page to inform the world of this disaster
http://www.carpatho-rusyn.org/flood.htm
Our Society has made arrangements with the International Red Cross to begin sending aid to Transcarpathia and we continue to contact other organisations. It is our hope that aid will soon arrive. Please keep us informed about the situation and needs.
fax: +1 248 620 0234
Carpatho-Rusyn Society -USA