Dear Fung,
I don't know if this site can be of any help for you.
http://www.impact-kenniscentrum.nl/index.php?pag=146 It belongs to Impact, the ;
Dutch knowledge and advice centre for post-disaster social care. I wish you
good luck and hope you will be able to support these bitterly hurt people. In
my country this news has been on tv and in the newspapers all the time since it
happened as well as the tycoon in Birma.
All the best for you and your people.
Martin Keuper
The Netherlands
----- Original Message -----
From: ahfung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
To: ConstellationTalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Friday, May 16, 2008 7:55 PM
Subject: [ConstellationTalk] Earthquake in China
Dear All,
Perhaps you may all learn from media that there's an earthquake(7.8
magnitude) in Sichuan province of China on May 12th. Chinese govt has responded
swiftly by mobilizing more than 100,000 troops, doctors, firemen, rescue teams
to the areas. Thousands of people have been saved but the dead tolls are now
more than 20,000, and estimated to rise more than 50,000. There could be more
than 40,000 people still buried or missing. Hundreds of thousands casualties.
Five million people are become homeless right now.
You may refer to the following BBC link for details.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7405103.stm
An appeal by International Federation Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
http://www.ifrc.org/what/disasters/response/sichuan-earthquake/index.asp
China Government has called for volunteer psychotherapists to help
counselling casualties, those children who lost their parents, those parents
lost their children - many of them just have one child, and those who lost
their partners, friends, colleagues and fellow students. Some of my
constellation students have responded to this and on their way to the distraous
areas. However, psychotherapy is an infant profession and most of therapists
have received only very basic training and what they are facing now is a huge
grief of people who are now in traumatic states.
I would like to request your help:
1. Any people who have worked with traumatic states, could you please share
some of your experience such that at least some quick rules about crisis
intervention can be learnt by helpers to offer some relief to casualties? (e.g.
By constellation approach or by any other approaches.)
2. Could you please recommend some useful websites, reading materials, or any
other means regarding how to deal with mass distraous situation?
3. Could you please spread the messages to your friends that many Chinese
people need help?
On behalf of Chinese people, I appreciate for any form of help from all you!
I don't want to divert the focus of this forum, please send your reply to my
personal email: ahfung@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Fung
from Hong Kong and China
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