Aidilfitri di Galkaiyo, Somalia

Aku beraya dengan bodyguard dan staf MRA. Tiada ketupat dan tiada lemang, tiada kueh raya mahupun kerepek.

Yang ada hanyalah kambing, kambing, kambing…hari hari makan kambing, pagi petang siang malam semuannya kambing hahahahahahaha… ada sekali aku minta telur untuk breakfast, diaorang kata aku kena order dua hari dulu, sebab tak de telur dalam stok, telur kena booking in advance… ahahahahaha….

Shahrul Peshawar

Selamat Hari Raya Aidilfitri 1432 dari Galkaiyo, Somalia

Aku dah sampai di Somalia sejak 24hb Ogos yang lalu.  Sempat berpuasa dan kini Alhamdulillah beraya disini juga.  Kepada semua pengunjung blog yang aku kasihi, kenal atau tak kenal, yang pernah berjumpa atau tidak, yang setuju dengan pandangan aku dan yang tak setuju, aku mohon MAAF kalau menyakitkan hati korang semua.  Salam KEMAAFAN dari aku di LAPANGAN SOMALIA.

Rumah Perlindungan Al Huda, Bossaso

Inilah rumah perlindungan Al Huda untuk anak yatim dan anak miskin dari kalangan anak-anak pelarian dan masyarakat miskin di Bosasso. Ada sebuah NGO Tempatan yang membantu mereka, sangat komited. Mereka perlukan dana untuk makanan dan sewa rumah. Aku cadang nak gunakan program Qurban untuk sponsor rumah perlindungan nie.

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Bersama Dr. Daud di Port Bossaso

Dr. Daud dah sampai ke Bossaso? Bukan, ini Dr. Daud Bossaso. Dia nie staf MRA Somalia. Kami bergambar kat Port Bossaso. UN guna port nie untuk bawa masuk makanan dan supply ke kawasan utara. Mana ada lanun sangat, dulu korang ingat tak yang panggil orang Bugis tu lanun sapa? Mat Salleh kan, cam tulah gak kat sini, depa panggil orang yang ganggu diaorang lanun… simple je.

Janganlah korang bayangkan Pelabuhan Kelang atau North Port tu, … ini Somalia lah, ini antara port terbaik yang diaorang ada, camana tempat yang port dia pun tak canggih boleh keluarkan lanun? Kalau ada sesapa nak hantar barang ke Somalia ikut Port Bossaso nie jangan risau, aku memang keturunan Bugis, kira lanun Malaya nanti aku “kow-tim” dengan lanun Somalia.

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Bersama anak-anak pelarian di New Shabella, Bossaso

ADA orang kata aku ambil gambar duduk sebab nak melindungi sesuatu dari dalam tubuh badan aku, sampai hati diaorang cakap macam tu, dalam bahasa mahkamah ianya dikira tuduhan berniat jahat – Mala Fide.
Aku kenalah duduk nak bergambar dengan budak-budak, nanti aku tak masuk dalam “frame”. Tukang petik kamera tu dia akan petik je, dia bukan nak cari angle yang terbaik, jadi aku kena advise dia untuk gambar yang menarik, bukan senang nak mintak budak-budak tu bergambar dengan aku… diaorang tak biasa tengok orang lain selain yang sewaktu dengannya…

Shahrul Peshawar

Kem New Shabella di Bossaso

Sebaik saja mendarat, lepas semua proses visa dan hal yang berpatutan di airport aku minta untuk terus melawat ke Kem Pelarian, aku kata nanti tangguh-tangguh takut terlewat satu hari. Aku lupa nak bagitahu, ketika tiba dari Barbera, beg aku dan beg Sayed tak ikut sekali, entah kat mana sangkut beg kami berdua – Wallahualam. Tapi, aku dah bersedia dengan beg sandang yang bawak laptop n keperluan lain, cukuplah untuk survival 7 hari. Tapi yang sedih, ada kuih lidah buaya untuk aku raikan Syawal dalam tu…

Kem New Shabella nie dapat nama sebab kebanyakkan penduduk datang dari wilayah Shabella di Selatan Tengah dekat dengan Mogadishu tu, diaorang datang ke Bossaso sama ada berjalan kaki beribu kilometer, tumpang lori, tumpang kereta,naik keldai atau unta… bas ekspress dan keretapi takde disini…

Di Kem ni, MRA bantu bagi air bersih, kita bawa lori tangki dan isikan air penuh-penuh dalam tadahan air nie supaya senang pelarian ambil air nie… kami supply 21 lori sehari ke 32 kem pelarian disini (setiap kem ada giliran masing-masing) kita akan buat selama sebulan bermula dari 26hb Ogos 2011 yang lalu. Sebuah lori boleh angkut maksimum 8000 liter air.

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Pesawat untuk ke Bossaso

Pesawat Antropov ke Bossaso

Inilah pesawat buatan Russia, Antropov (iye ke?) yang akan membawa kami ke Bossaso. Takde sapa nak check aku ada visa atau tidak. Takde sapa peduli nak check aku bawa cecair ke, gunting ke, senapang ke, pistol ke. Takde sapa peduli aku nak bawa barang berat macamana pun, nak bawak anak gajah ke, nak bawak mak gajah ke, nak bawak katil ke hahahahahahahahaha

Yang paling best, pesawat ni tak leh hidup, dekat setengah jam, lepas pilot, engineer, repair…aku tengok dia main sambung-sambung wayar je, cam nak bagi lampu kereta menyala… pakai skru drebar je..

Bila dah diudara, semua orang asyik berkipas je, rupanya aircond tak leh function, aku tak tahan panas, dahlah puasa… tapi aku tertidur gak dengan peluh berjurai-jurai, dekat sejam pastu baru aircond function…

bersambung…

Shahrul Peshawar

Ke Barbera, Somaliland

Inilah pesawat yang aku naik dari Dubai ke Barbera. Pesawat nie kecik je, aku terhimpit dengan sorang pompuan Somalia, seksa gaklah aku dibuatnya, tapi apa nak buat… buat-buat tertido ajelah.

Dalam pesawat nie, aku tak paham sepatah pun tulisan dia, tapi sebab selalu naik flight aku boleh agaklah apa nak buat kalau berlaku sesuatu…

Shahrul Peshawar..

Bersiap ke Somalia

Mesyuarat MRA pada malam Khamis lalu memutuskan saya untuk ke Somalia dalam tempoh seminggu ini.  Saya terima keputusan ini dengan baik kerana pada saya ianya merupakan satu penghormatan kepada saya.

Memang sayu memikirkan berhari raya berjauhan dari keluarga, terutama ibubapa, isteri dan anak-anak, namun jika difikirkan, tahun lepas pun saya tak sempat beraya di KL, hanya beraya di Alor Setar sahaja.

SOMALIA – ‘Disaster fatigue’ must not dull compassion for starving children – UN

The head of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) today made an impassioned appeal to the world to save an estimated 390,000 starving children in famine-ravaged regions of Somalia, saying the international community must not let the so-called “disaster fatigue” numb compassion and generosity.

“I have read in the last few days a number of articles noting a decrease of interest in the Horn of Africa in the press and in the publics. This must not happen. We cannot let a kind of disaster fatigue set in,” said Anthony Lake, the UNICEF Executive Director, at a news conference at UN Headquarters to mark World Humanitarian Day.

“The statistics can be mind-numbing, but remember that the data is sons and daughters. The statistics are little boys and little girls, every one of them,” said Mr. Lake, adding that the situation in Somalia was a “human disaster becoming a human catastrophe.”

In addition to the tens of thousands of Somalis who have already died as a result of the drought-induced famine, which has been exacerbated by conflict and poverty, an estimated 390,000 children are suffering from malnutrition. Four fifths of them are in the worst affected areas of the country’s south-central zone.

“In some areas there we are seeing already historically high rates of severe acute malnutrition… which means that the number of children in that zone facing imminent death is approaching 140,000 children,” said Mr. Lake. “In many ways this is a children’s crisis. Their plight demands and deserves our most urgent, bold and sustained response,” he added.

“I think that in all of us […] there is a natural desire when confronted with the images of people suffering so much to push them away, to categorize them as victims and to thus separate their lives from ours.

“That is wrong. They are not simply victims to be pitied. They are courageous, resilient human beings fighting under terrible circumstances to survive and save their children’s lives. They both deserve out admiration and our support in their desperate struggle, and we are struggling to provide it,” said Mr. Lake.

He warned that the onset of the next rainy season is not due until October and projections indicate that the entire central and southern Somalia will suffer the same extreme food and nutrition crisis now prevailing in the five areas where famine has been declared, with almost 300,000 children in imminent peril.

“The crisis will get worse,” said Mr. Lake. “There will be no major harvest until the beginning of next year and those are predicted to be below average.

“We are in a fight against time. We must take from these facts and projections not hopelessness, not surrender, but a renewed determination to limit the deaths, to save lives and to know some day that we did all we could today. We need all the support that we can get in order to do this,” he added.

Mr. Lake said that UNICEF had established hundreds of nutrition centres and programmes in Somalia and was reaching more than a million people with water and sanitation. The agency is also planning a measles vaccination programme that is expected to reach two million children in the coming months.

Speaking at the same news conference, Valerie Amos, the UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, said that despite stepped-up efforts aid agencies were not reaching as many people across the drought-stricken Horn of African with life-saving assistance as they would like.

“We are all working as quickly as we can to provide life-saving aid and protection in the [Somali] capital, Mogadishu, across the border in refugee camps particularly in Kenya and Ethiopia and increasingly in the south, in Al Shabaab-controlled areas.

“But we are still not reaching enough people. Donors and the public have continued to give generously, but we still need more than a billion dollars to provide all the aid that is needed,” said Ms. Amos, who is also the UN Emergency Relief Coordinator.

http://reliefweb.int/node/442075