Stella'nın Hayatında Bir Değişiklik Yapmak — Make a Change to Stella's Life

Make a Change to Stella's Life (1 haber 30 isim, 8 eşanlamlı kelime)

Observer Christmas appeal 2009: make a change to Stella's life Amelia Gentleman , The Observer This year we have teamed up with a small Ugandan NGO, the Mvule Trust, to provide education bursaries burs to help young people, such as Stella, in the Teso region of north-east Uganda. Recipients will learn the skills yetenek their communities so badly need in agriculture tarım,forestry ormancılık,health, business and education.

When the insurgency isyan in northern Uganda was at its most recent height, the doors of the Obalanga health centre, in the district bölge of Amuria, would be besieged by the sick and the dying from early morning. Stella found it almost impossible to attract the attention of the overworked nurses. "My baby is very sick," she would tell the other people in the queue sıra. "Let me go to the front." "Are we not also sick?"voices ses from the crowd kalabalık would reply, refusing to let her pass.

The nurses struggled to cope with the crush kalabalık of patients, made ill by the conditions at the nearby camp set up for villagers fleeing the violence şiddet wreaked by the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA). There were very few drugs in the health centre, and whatever it was they prescribed for Stella's nine-month-old daughter did not work. After a month of sickness hastalık,the baby, Susan, died one morning at Stella's thatched hut in the camp. "Nobody was there to help me. Nobody came to help until that baby died. "They did not intend to make my child die, but the pressure baskı on the health centre was such that they could not help her," Stella says. "That experience will never go out of me."

Stella, now 21, tells this story not so much to evoke sympathy but to explain why she is determined to return to college and study nursing hemşirelik. She relates her experience as a way of illustrating how the inadequate treatment tedavi of her child at the hands of (possibly unqualified) nurses has fuelled an ambition heves to train herself and do better by her patients. If Stella wins one of the scholarship burs being awarded by the Mvule Trust, the charity hayırseverlik the Observer is supporting for its Christmas appeal this year, she plans to go to nursing college and hopes to specialise in midwifery ebelik. Her story reflects the catastrophes felaket that have blighted the lives of a generation nesil of children from this stretch gerginlik of north-eastern Uganda, but she tells her story in the manner of someone who sees disaster felaket as an impediment engel that can be overcome.

The difficulties began when the anti-government LRA came to the Teso region in 2003, killing farmers, abducting schoolchildren and spreading fear. Stella fled with her parents, her two younger sisters and three younger brothers to the camp in Obalanga. During the day her father would return to the area to gather food in the family's fields. "We said, 'Please, papa, don't go'. He said, 'But there's nothing to eat'," she remembers. It was not long before he was shot and killed by the fighters. Her father's death was disastrous. "Feeding really changed when daddy was no longer there. We used to have breakfast, lunch and supper. When he died there was only one meal," Stella says. "From the time that the old man died, I was wondering how will these kids be brought up," she says, nodding towards her younger siblings kardeş. "How will I continue my education? How will our life end?"

If the work of the LRA attracted international attention (and conflicts çekişme in this part of conflict-ravaged East Africa rarely grab the front page), it was because of the flamboyant nature of its leader, Joseph Kony, the kidnapping of children for his army and his rebels'reputation ün for extreme brutality gaddarlık. Less attention was paid to the humanitarian crisis that unfolded in the wake of the insurgency, with millions pushed into refugee camps.

In 2003 Jan Egeland, head of disaster relief destek at the UN, described the fallout from the fighting as the world's biggest neglected humanitarian crisis. The conditions in the camps were bleak and the physical upheaval ayaklanma of such a large section of society caused ripples dalgalanma of chaos and family breakdown.