[A-PAL] APAL NEWSLETTER/ABANDONED BABIES NEED HELP 4/5/02

[Alice Mead]

ALBANIAN PRISONER ADVOCACY (A-PAL)
APRIL 5, 2002

              UPDATE: ABANDONED BABIES NEED HELP


>Immediate Financial Help is needed for residential care for 30 
>abandoned babies.
>  Please, PLEASE HELP US! We are beginning a collection campaign for 
>care of orphans in Pristina Hospital. SOS Kinderof is looking for 
>donors. Details below.
>
>
>     With nearly all prisoners back in Kosova, we have turned our attention
>now to other human rights and civil rights issues--at the moment,
>the most urgent is the humanitarian crisis regarding the 30
>abandoned children in Prishtina Hospital. As anyone who has been in
>this sorry excuse of a hospital knows, it is a place with no food
>for patients, no medicine, no xrays, no chemo, no bandaids, no
>aspirin, and has outbreaks of communicable diseases. It is no place
>for healthy people and certainly not a good choice for the ill.
>     Since 1999, a number of infants, now some are nearly three
>years old, have been kept on a ward there. Why they have been kept
>in an institution--some supervision was at one time done by ICRC and
>Save the Children--when world-wide it is commonly known that the
>best practice to place children in families is a question no one we
>contacted was able or willing to ever answer. The children have had
>outbreaks of illness, had diapers changed only once every twelve
>hours. They lay for hours in their own soiled diapers."
>
>Meanwhile a solution for the orphans could be found,
>but funding is so far not secured.
>  SOS Kinderdorf Kosovo is looking for donors for the following 
>temporary project:
>
>Project : two rented houses run by SOS Kinderdorf Kosovo for 12 babies each
>
>Duration : from May until December 2002
>
>Costs  : 40.000 EURO for rent, staff and all other running costs for 
>one house  (The other house will be funded by SOS Kinderdorf - 
>donated money should go directly to SOS Kinderdorf Kosovo, not UNMIK 
>Department)
>
>Information:
>Eva Kitzler, project coordinator SOS Kinderdorf (evakitzler at hotmail.com)
>Gabrielle Rutten, Head of Social Services (rutteng at un.org)
>
>By the end of April 2002 Department and SOS Kinderdorf will need to 
>knowif enough donors are willing to help finance a temporary house.
>               Please help the babies by helping us.
    ****** Information on where to wire money is listed below****
>-------  -------
>
>Transitional Department of Labour and Social Welfare
>Date  : 9 March 2002
>Ref.Nr. : Children-in-Care
>
>     From  : Gabrielle Rutten, Head of Social Services
>     Bajram Kelmendi, Deputy Head of Social Services
>     Hasan Zekaj, Children-in-Care coordinator
>Subject : Financial Help needed for residential care for all abandoned
>babies
>
>The Department of Social Welfare has an agreement with SOS Kinderdorf
>Kosovo for 2 permanent and 4 flexible family-type homes for babies. The
>2 permanent units are presently located in rented houses but will move
>to a new purpose built facility at the end of April 2002. SOS Kinderdorf
>Kosovo will start the construction of the additional 4 flexible units in
>the very near future. These units will be finished in December 2002.
>This means that in December 2002 the Department has the necessary
>capacity for appropriate residential care for babies without parental
>care.
>
>Yesterday, the Department had a very constructive meeting with the
>project coordinator of SOS Kinderdorf Kosovo. They are willing to keep
>the two rented houses open until the 4 units are ready in December 2002
>if they can find adequate funding. This would mean that all babies are
>out of Prishtina Hospital in May 2002! Obviously, the Department is
>extremely interested in this option. SOS Kinderdorf has almost succeeded
>in securing funds for one house, the other is still uncertain.
>
>For this reason we seek the help of everybody who has expressed their
>concern about the conditions of the babies in Prishtina Hospital and
>anybody who agrees that a hospital is no place for healthy babies! At
>present there are 28 babies in the gynecology / maternity ward and 4 in
>the pediatric ward.
>
>
>                         DONATIONS
>
>Today Mrs. Eva Kitzler sent the data for donation by Wire Transfer:
>
>                       GERMANY
>
>Hermann-Gmeiner-Fonds Deutschland e.V.
>Account Number 1111 111
>Deutsche Bank AG Muenchen
>Bank routing code: 700 700 10
>Transfer note: SOS KDI KOSOVO, PROJEKT CSMP III, IV (BABYZENTREN)
>
>contact:
>Hermann-Gmeiner-Fonds Deutschland e.V.
>Menzingerstr. 23, 80 638 Muenchen
>tel: +49-89-179 14 - 0, email: hermann.gmeiner.fonds at sos-kd.org
>
>!! It is VERY IMPORTANT to add the TRANSFER NOTE:
>!! SOS KDI KOSOVO, PROJEKT CSMP III, IV (BABYZENTREN))
>!! Only by this your donation realy will come for the orphan babies.
>
>                     AUSTRIA
>
>SOS Kinderdorf, 6020 Innsbruck
>Account Number 2390000
>P.S.K.
>Bank routing code: 60000
>Transfer note: SOS KDI KOSOVO, PROJEKT CSMP III, IV (BABYZENTREN)
>
>contact:
>SOS-Kinderdorf Oesterreich
>Stafflerstr. 10a, A - 6020 Innsbruck
>tel: +43-512-59 18-0, email: sos-kinderdorf-oesterreich at sos-kd.org
>
>
>For more information or other ways of support please contact:
>
>SOS KDI Kosovo, Eva Kitzler
>mobile: +377-44-501 393
>tel/fax: +381-38-22 10 69
>email: sos_kdi_csmp at hotmail.com
>
>
>           THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR HELP
>
>            from the A-PAL-team
>
>Sincerely,
>                    Wolfgang Plarre
>
>
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