8 Afghanistan – hygiene ­education saves lives 10 Romania – family received help when all hope seemed lost Mission east 12 – prepared for the NUMBER 1 / SPRING 2007 flood

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Handicapped children in : Special needs school creates hope for a better future  Contents

4 Armenia 8 Afghanistan – The Managing Director's ten-year-old – When Lailo learned to son visits a school for the handicapped wash her hands “You learn to not only think of Six-year-old Lailo lost two siblings yourself,” says ten-year-old Philip in early childhood. They died from Wikborg Hartzner, son of Mission diarrhoea because the family was East's Managing Director. He has not familiar with good hygiene. visited one of the schools for children Now the village has received who are handicapped or who have education in preventing diseases. learning difficulties that Mission East helps in Armenia.

10 Romania 12 Tajikistan – Help arrived at the exact – This time Saidjamol is ­moment Olga needed it ­prepared for the flood Olga used to live in a one room house During the past 14 years the villages with her eight children. She did not along the Yokshu River have have a job and her husband could not experienced about one flood a year. endure their poor situation and left Saidjamol Saidulleov's family lost her for another woman. almost everything when their home and land was flooded.

Front page photo: Mission East Head Office in Hellerup, Board At the Gavar Special School is a Danish international aid organisation. Managing Director Dr. Kim Hartzner Chairman: Dr. Thomas Ploug handicapped and children We exist to deliver relief and development Vice Managing Director Peter Blum Deputy chairman: with learning difficulties are assistance to vulnerable communities with a ­Samuelsen Kenneth Whitelaw-Jones primary focus on Eastern Europe and Asia. given the opportunity to Communications Director Jesper Holst Robert Kelley Based on Christian values, Mission East aims Journalist Tania Rusbjerg Turi Nørholm develop their individual talents. to support the most vulnerable, making no Liason Officer Henrik Gunnertoft Dr. Peter Bernhard Approximately 700 children racial, political or religious distinction between Bookkeeper and Office Assistant Tina Bartels in the region need special those in need. Editorial staff education – and in spite of the Mission East currently operates in Afghanistan, Mission East Office in Brussels, Belgium Kim Hartzner fact that the school has room Armenia and Tajikistan, and we co-operate Operations Director Mags Bird Tania Rusbjerg for 200 children, it currently with local partners in Bulgaria, Romania and Finance Director Peter Drummond Smith . only has about 100 students. Finance Manager Terry Gould and Marianne Graphic design The assistance offered by Mission East is sup- Le Floch www.munchogmunch.dk ported by a range of private and public donors Project Support: Richard Peppiette ISSN 0908-2042 such as the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Desk Officers: John Karren, Alex Ramos-Peña EU and the United Nations. Jacques Dailloux, Graeme Glover Mission Øst · Postboks 149 · Skt. Lukas Vej 13 · 2900 Hellerup · Tlf. +45 39 61 20 48 · Fax +45 39 61 20 94 · Giro 773 1566 · CVR 1472 3692 · [email protected] · www.miseast.org e d i t o r i a l 

Not just about numbers

Mission East has helped around enormously thanks to relatively 250,000 people in 2006. But our simple interventions. support is much more than a number. This magazine is dedicated A child in Afghanistan learns to some of the individual lives we how to wash her hands and have changed with your help. understands for the frst time how this will protect her health. A Somehow the world we live in mother in Romania learns to hope seems to get faster and faster. 2007 again because someone reaches corner of the country. As we look is already well underway, and we out to help her in the midst of at the stories in this magazine, wonder how it came so quickly. poverty. A man in Tajikistan is we draw hope and inspiration in Life for Mission East, whether for reassured that his family is better a busy world from the thought our teams in the feld, or staff at prepared for the annual flooding. that it’s not just about numbers. headquarters just seems to get Each story is a life changed, for Each well, each hygiene training busier and busier. There is so which we offer thanks. Thanks session, each flood early warning much to do….! Sometimes the lists which is in a large part due to system, changes the lives of of things to do are so long that we our faithful supporters who individuals in an amazing way. forget to take a step back and look make the work possible – and And amidst the daily rush, that at what we have achieved. of which we have just reached a thought helps us to keep going. I total of 7,000, another cause for hope it is also a reflection which This magazine presents some celebration! brings you encouragement and of those achievements. And keeps you with us through 2007 in a world that increasingly So, we look on towards the rest of – thank you for your ongoing talks in terms of trends and 2007 and imagine the hundreds support. generalizations, it also presents of thousands more lives we’ll be us with a chance to stop for helping change along the way. We a moment and focus on some hope that an increasing number With gratitude, individuals. Some real, individual of these will be in Nepal, where people in different situations we are working towards setting up for whom life has changed projects in the most remote and Dr. Kim Hartzner poverty-stricken mountainous Managing Director of Mission East  a r m e n i e n

The Managing Director’s ten-year-old son visits school for the handicapped “They were not really familiar with technology,” Philip Hartzner (left) says about the children at the school in Gavar. “They did not know what a television and a mobile phone is. I took out my mobile phone and they all wanted to look at it. They were pointing at it and looked like they wanted to ask me “What does that thing do?””

school were OK because the toilets and showers had been renovated by Mission East. But the windows were so rotten that you couldn’t open them. It is not so bad in the winter but, when it gets really hot “You learn to not only think of By Tania Maria Lüders The children on the other side of in the summer then it is a problem yourself,” says ten-year-old Philip Rusbjerg, Mission East the walls of this boarding school that the children can’t get fresh air Journalist Wikborg Hartzner, son of Mission come from some of the poorest in the room while they sleep,” says East’s Managing Director. Together families in the country. They are Philip. with his classmates he has vi- socially vulnerable, handicapped “Their beds were really hard. I sited the Gavar Special School for and children with learning tried lying on one of them and it handicapped and children with difficulties, who need extra help to was like I was lying on bricks. I learning difficulties in Armenia. survive and develop. would never be able to fall asleep Ten-year-old Philip Wikborg if I went to bed there.” One winter’s day, three white Hartzner was one of the “The classrooms were decayed. minivans rolled up in front of the passengers. He has been living in The walls were falling apart, the Gavar Special School in Armenia. Armenia since August with his paint was flaking off, the tables During the following couple of mother, two brothers, and his were scratched, and the windows hours, the passengers, thirty dad, Kim Hartzner, who is there were rotten, too.” students from the International “Their beds were really the Managing Director of School in the capital Yerevan, got hard. I tried lying on one Mission East. That winter's “As if they had a glimpse of a world very different of them and it was like day he experienced how never seen sweets” from their own. Far from the flat I was lying on bricks. I children in one of Armenia’s The visit is part of a project screen televisions, the mobile would never be able to poorest regions live. carried out by the International phones and the designer clothes fall asleep if I went to bed “I can’t imagine a school like School in co-operation with they are used to. Far from warm there.” that in Denmark. It wouldn’t Mission East. The goal is to raise rooms, quilted covers and the Ten-year-old have been allowed – they money to renovate the decaying regular filling meals. Philip Wikborg Hartzner would have pulled it down building and create better learning 20 years ago. Parts of the environment for the children. 

Getting the right education is little these children have, and the crucial to these children’s future. stark contrast when compared to The one thing Philip remembers their own lives.” most from the visit is how gifted Philip adds: the children turned out to be in “You learn to not only think of spite of their handicaps. yourself. You see how good you “I was surprised and impressed to really have it. After the visit I see how talented they are. I had talked to my best friend who never imagined that they could comes from a rich family in “They are not good at do all the things they could do. Armenia. He had learned that reading and writing but Some of the boys were building there are many people in his own they can create things Mission East furniture and the girls were country who is living under much with their hands,” Philip in Armenia Hartzner says. He was sewing dresses. They are good worse conditions than himself. It very impressed with the For decades the handicapped in at totally different things from was nice to hear.” Gavar children’s talents. Armenia have been considered the ones we learn at our school. Philip has no doubt how he would a disgrace to society and their They are not good at reading and help the children if he could. families. Too often they have writing but they can create things “If I had enough money I would been hidden away at home. with their hands. The school frst of all give them some They don’t get the right medical helps them to be really good at heating. Right now they “I was surprised and treatment, and their right to go what they do so they can get jobs have these big ovens that the impressed to see how to school and learn to develop afterwards.” children run around when talented they are… They their potential is not respected. When all the children had eaten they play. The ovens are are good at totally diffe- Mission East seeks out families lunch the students from the really hot and the children rent things from the ones who need support to give their International School handed out can burn themselves badly we learn at our school.” handicapped child a better the gifts they had brought from if they accidentally touch Ten-year-old future. home. Bags with sweets, biscuits, them.” Philip Wikborg Hartzner In 2005 Mission East played and pies. “And then I would buy them a significant role in the “The youngest kids were ecstatic, new beds, paint, new windows introduction of a new law that running around and showing and better food." gives right to an education for their gifts to the adults. It was Philip looks forward to visiting After lunch the students all, including the handicapped. very moving to see them so happy the school with his classmates from the International And in November 2006 we about so little. In Denmark it again in March. School handed out received the official approval of bags with sweets. In is quite normal to get sweets the picture Narine a new national special education once in a while without it being shows her gratitude. curricula that caters for the a special occasion – when I go needs of children with learning visit Grandma and Grandpa for difficulties on their level. example. It was like they had At the Gavar Special School, never seen sweets before,” Philip Mission East has helped says. renovate toilets and showers to keep the school functioning and If I had enough money… to help more parents want to Philip’s teacher, Mrs. Gillis, saw send their handicapped children what a great impression the visit to school. made on her own students. “Although the facilities were clean and basic and there were improvement projects in progress, our students were moved by how  a r m e n i e n

600 children are left out of the school system

By Tania Maria Lüders Only a fraction of the handicapped special education curricula for Rotten windows, missing floor Rusbjerg, Mission East children and children with learning children with special needs, and boards, and unsanitary toilets Journalist difficulties living in the poor Geghar- we help renovate toilets, showers, help maintain the reasonable kunik region go to school. Mission the kitchen and washrooms in the mistrust they have for the system. East is working on changing that. decaying building. Decent conditions on the other hand make the parents trust that In Armenia where people with Renovation is a key to education people will take good care of their handicaps or learning diffculties The renovation of the school children. are viewed as having less plays a signifcant role in getting Mission East has helped the potential than others, can be more children with special needs school increase the number of hard to convince parents that to become a part of the school these students at the Gavar Special their handicapped children need system. School from less than 30 to about to go to school to develop their Having a handicapped child is 100 by fnding families with talents. Surveys show that at least often considered as such a great children who need to go to school 700 children in the region need shame that the children are being and by renovating the buildings. special education. Despite that hidden away at home. fact, the only school for children When Mission East has found the School would have with learning disabilities only has families and helped the parents been closed down about 100 students even though it understand, how important the Lavrik Arevshatjan has worked at has room for twice as many. school is for their children, it is the school for nine years. He has Mission East supports the Gavar crucial that they fnd the physical no doubt that it would have been Special School. We work on surroundings acceptable. closed down if Mission East had not been there. “Mission East has done a great work here. You have taught our teachers here how we should work with the children. Through the combined work of Mission East and staff here at the school, the school was saved, through the introduction of new educational

Lavrik Arevshatjan has worked at the Gavar Special School for nine years – the last two as Managing Director. He is certain that the school would have been closed if parts of the school had not been renovated. 

Even though the school has new toilets and showers, parts of the building are still in a terrible state.

reforms, and through the This is what the students at the improvement of conditions of the International School had to say after their visit to children with special needs here.” the Gavar Special School: Mission East's special education curricula was offcially approved • The kids might not be • We went there to help them in November under the project talented in reading and grow in friendship with them. “Towards Education for All” writing but they are gifted When we left they were full of carried out by Mission East and in other ways. I was amazed joy and happiness. local partner Bridge of Hope, when I saw how they worked Guadalupe Alvarez, Argentina supported among others by wood and yarn. So please help the Danish Ministry of Foreign them however you can, so • Even though these children Affairs. they will have a better future. have a place to sleep and food “Now, as a result of your work, Alain Tamazian, Armenia to eat, they still need your help. we have separate curricula for the Lizzia Schack, USA children – one for children with • Sometimes the children moderate learning diffculties, were handicapped. Even • The roof is in danger of and one for children with severe so, the children were very collapsing and needs to be learning diffculties.” artistic and talented. I think replaced. About the renovation work he I couldn’t even make as Maggie Ryan, USA adds: talented work as them. “You have literally prevented the Betty Vardanian, Armenia, • We experienced what it was collapse of the entire school.” Canada like there. The children need help. Mission East continues its work • They need better environment Sophie Alexandra Gringer, at the Gavar Special School which and home. They need our help! USA is still in need of a comprehensive Maja Fiedler, Germany renovation.  A f g h a n i s t a n

When Lailo learned to wash her hands

For families in poor and isolated By Muborak Ismoilova, Lailo is six years old. She is an Afghanistan has one of the worst Public Health Coordinator, areas like the mountain village of inquisitive girl living with her child mortality rates in the world. Afghanistan Murkan in Afghanistan, sharing family in the remote mountain One in four Afghan children dies basic knowledge and skills like village of Murkan in the Warduj before his or her ffth birthday. washing hands - knowledge that district. The family lives in very Many such deaths are from the rest of us take for granted poor economic conditions. Her waterborne diseases, and other - can literally make the mother Soro is a widow with nine illnesses transmitted by poor difference between “It’s the first time that children. hygiene practice. life and death. someone has come Two of Lailo's other siblings died Before Mission East came to the to our place and has in early childhood from diarrhoea. village, Lailo and her family used explained about hygiene Two deaths that could have been to go to the toilet out in the open, education.” prevented if someone had only and every summer all they all Lailo, aged six told the family about personal and used to have diarrhoea. Now the household hygiene. situation has changed because of 

One in four Afghan children dies before his or her fifth birthday. Two of Lailo's siblings died in early childhood from diarrhoea because the family didn’t know about hygiene rules.

a Mission East project supported to prevent it. Now she knows appreciate health education among others by the Danish important times for hand washing that has been provided “I think this education Ministry of Foreign Affairs. and loves putting her learning into by Mission East health is very important for us Mission East has assisted them to practice. As Lailo says, she is also promoters. because dirty people build a latrine by their house and proud to share such knowledge Many thousands of lives can be caught by many has also installed a clean water with her friends. could be saved each year diseases!” supply system in the village. So “I have learned some hygiene if people had clean water Lailo, aged six now the family has both nearby rules, about washing hands and so rather than drinking toilet facilities and access to safe on, that I didn’t know before and I from rivers and other drinking water. like doing this for real!” contaminated sources, and if “It’s the frst time that someone people knew basic measures to “Dirty people can be caught by has come to our place and take for personal and household many diseases” has explained about hygiene hygiene in order to prevent Lailo, like other girls in the education. I think this education spreading disease. This is exactly village, attended health education is very important for us because what Mission East is aiming to sessions with her mother given dirty people can be caught by achieve as part of our ongoing by the Mission East team. They many diseases!” work in remote areas of rural learned basic information about Now Lailo and her family Afghanistan. how disease is spread, and how members are healthy and really

Mission East has educated health promoters, who teach the vil- lagers how to avoid getting sick by using good hygiene. 10 R o m a n i a

Claudia, Maria, Olga, Sefora, Ana, Sara, Rozalia og Aurica often had to go to bed hungry because their parents could not afford food. Today the family rent some land where they grow vegetables. Help arrived at the exact moment Olga needed it

Olga used to live in a one room By Felicia Rotar, Director 37-year-old Olga lived in a small parents could not afford to buy house with her eight children. She of Solia Sperant¸ei (Mission one room house with her husband food. East's partner in Romania) did not have a job and her husband and eight children. The house was Olga’s husband worked as a could not endure their poverty and not heated. In summer time that shepherd. Because he was away left her for another woman with a was fne because the family was from home most of the time, better economic situation. Olga’s outside all the time. But the winter Olga had to stay at the house and story is a story about help that was a disaster. look after the children instead of arrives when it is needed the most. They improvised a stove fnding work. “It was unbelievable with the material they had. to see Solia Sperant¸ei Each day they had to collect “I knew that I coming with things that wood from the village was not alone anymore” I needed exactly at the to make a little warmth One day Olga’s husband left her, point of my life when I in the room. Very often, saying that he could not endure needed it the most.” the children had to go to the diffcult situation anymore. He Olga Pop bed hungry because their found a woman who was better off fnancially. 11

The Pop family used to live in a one room house. After receiving help from Mission East and Solia Sperantei the family can now afford to buy a better home.

Olga’s world fell apart. Every day I have been able to face all of my Mission East in Romania was a challenge for survival. The problems,” Olga says and adds, Mission East works with the girls tried to encourage her and “And they are not few.” organisation Solia Sperant¸ei spent a lot of time in the village (“Messenger of Hope”) to looking for work. One of the girls A decent place to live help the most vulnerable had to travel to Spain to fnd work After eight months, Olga’s groups of people in the Cluj- so she could send money home to husband, Sabin, returned and Napoca region. Orphans, support the family. asked her for forgiveness. Through sick, elderly, Roma families In that desperate time Solia Solia Sperant¸ei, Mission East has and single parent families Sperant¸ei, Mission East’s partner been able to help the family get on are receiving food, clothes, in Romania, heard about the their feet and help themselves to medicine, school materials, family. They made sure that Olga be able to afford a decent place to and seed. But the assistance and her daughters were given live. They bought a house and are is not only material. With monthly parcels with medicine renting one hectare land on which support from Mission and food. the children aged 10 to 19 help East, Solia Sperant¸ei offers “It was unbelievable to see Solia Olga grow vegetables. Sabin has psychological and social Sperant¸ei coming with things got a job in the forest. assistance. To Solia Sperant¸ei that I needed exactly at the point “We are very pleased with all we it is important that the help of my life when I needed it the have now and we give thanks to brings a hope of a better most. Since that time I knew that all the people who have helped future, and the organisation I was not alone anymore. A hope support us fnancially, materially values encouraging families came in to my life and since then and spiritually. Without them we to take care of themselves in could not face life.” the long term. 12 T a j i k i s t a n

This time Saidjamol is prepared for the flood

Saidjamol Saidulloev's family lost 78 years lived about ten metres The waters left them without food almost everything when their house away from the bank of the river. or any basic amenities, living out and land was flooded. For three Saidulloev’s land was a 3,600 in the open for three months. months they lived out in the open square metre property consisting For shelter they found a ‘cot’ where Saidjamol's wife gave birth of a family home, a shed for cows, - a traditional metal platform on to the child she was expecting. goats and poultry, storage for which Tajik people sit outside to fodder, grains and household eat in summer and spring. The cot In 1998 the rain had been intense By Jacques Dailloux, items. was covered by a tent. for ten days in the village of Desk Officer, Tajikistan When the river flooded the family In such a precarious situation Afghondeli. At about 9 a.m. on could barely save some of their Saidjamol’s wife gave birth to their May 5th, the level of the river essential things and lost most eighth child. started rising. of their assets and valuables Saidjamol was forced to sell off all Saidjamol Saidulloev's family of including some livestock. the animals in order to buy food 22 members aged six months to and construction materials to 13

Mission East has installed an early warning system in Saidjamol Saidulleov's village. If a flood is coming the family will be warned in advance.

rebuild his house, using just 400 country, these kinds of headlines district in Tajikistan and is square meters from the original are not exceptional. Villages in positioned on the washed- “We have been taken by 3,600 square meter of homestead the area along the Yokshu River out banks of the river surprise each time floods land as stagnant waters had where Mission East is working, Yokhsu. came. We lost everything accumulated on the rest. supported among others by 84 families of this village to it.” the European Commission’s have been affected by the Saidjamol Saidulloev 23,000 people affected humanitarian aid department, recurring floods. They were “Hundreds of homes have been ECHO, have experienced 13 floods unprepared when the floods destroyed, 8,000 people evacuated in the last 14 years. came and could do little more than and thousands of hectares of felds These floods affected around 3,000 saving their lives by taking refuge and pasture submerged by the families, about 23,000 people, in in the higher area. flooding that for over a month 19 villages with a total of 1,370 has laid waste to the shores of the homes and 1,554 hectares of land Taken by surprise Pyanzh River in south-eastern incurring direct flood damage. When Mission East spoke to Tajikistan.” the news agency AFP Saidjamol on the recurring floods wrote on July 18, 2005. One of the villages affected is and its impact on the families, this Saidjamol Saidulloev's village, is what he had to say: Unfortunately in Tajikistan, the Afghondeli. Afghondeli is situated “We have been taken by surprise former Soviet Union’s poorest in the Michurin Jamoat of the Vose each time floods came. We lost

90 percent of of the Saidulleovs family’s land is flooded. The picture shows what is left of the family’s home after the flood. 14

During the last 14 years villages along the river Youkshu have experienced approximately one flood a year. 1,370 homes are in danger of direct damage.

everything to it. We wanted some Accident waiting to happen forewarning regarding the flood. Another major flood is an accident Mission East in action: But none was coming. But now waiting to happen and it is with • Through a modern radio after Mission East’s intervention this in mind that Mission East network system Mission East we have got an early warning continues to work. makes sure the population system in our village that will Various measures have been put in in the valley is warned of the tell us at least fve hours place to ensure that the potentially imminent flood. in advance of any increase affected population are warned in • At the village level, people “I feel that if the flood in the level of water in the time and know how to respond have been trained to respond comes this time I will be river. And most importantly, accordingly. quickly by moving out of better prepared to save we have also a village We realise that we can not stop the their homes with their “in my family and others.” rescue group that has been floods completely, as this would case of flood” kit containing Saidjamol Saidulloev trained to extend immediate require activities well beyond things like their important support to help families in Mission East’s capacity and personal documents and distress to move to safer mandate. But what we can do is some foodstuffs to a flood- place, save livestock and other help limit the impact of the floods. secure location, following an valuables and also to give frst aid. In this way, while villagers are still agreed route. I feel that if the flood comes this likely to be physically affected, • Village Response Groups time I will be better prepared to they nevertheless have a better have been formed and save my family and also others.” chance of protecting their own trained to seek and A representative from the MOES lives and those of their family. rescue flood victims (Ministry of Emergencies) says, For people like Saidjamol, this is in collaboration with “Our staff is also trained in hope enough to build on for the government emergency evacuation. And the early warning future. services, which have system gives us immediate also been supplied with information so that we feel communications equipment better prepared, unlike previous and training. times. We have also carried out practice evacuation drills with the communities.” 15

Getting the job done

How does it happen, all this project The range of posts we advertise is understand the relief and work you see in the Mission East extremely broad. We look for staff development context and, most magazine? Who are these people with particular specialties – water importantly, have the right mix of who build clean water systems, and sanitation engineers, special specific skills to bring to the post. help special schools and run needs educators, logisticians and kitchen garden projects? Could you agronomists amongst others are all If you know of someone who give up your ‘creature comforts’ to regular features of our job ads. may be interested in working for join a field team in the frontline of By Nicki Davies-Jones, Mission East, or if you yourself the action? What does it take to be Human Resources We attract a dazzling array would like to register as a Coordinator at Mission out there, face to face with people East of individuals from different speculative applicant, please in need, and striving to help them backgrounds, cultures and visit www.miseast.org/apply solve their problems on a daily locations. We are looking for where you will be invited to basis? staff with previous humanitarian complete our application form. experience, people who Mission East has expatriate and nationally recruited staff working in Afghanistan, Armenia and Tajikistan, as well as its head office Graeme Glover from Mission East with workers staff working in Denmark, Belgium from our road project and the UK. This year we expect to in the Chaal District of start new projects in Nepal, too. Afghanistan. Today the road connects more than 56,000 villagers with the Our work straddles both relief surrounding world. and development and whilst some development programmes have longer running times, the relief projects are often of shorter duration. New proposals and programmes are constantly being planned and implemented as longer term strategies are worked out.

Engineer Islam (left) was responsible for Mission East’s canal project in Afghanistan. Today the canal prevents water from flooding Mohammad Afzal’s (middle) and other farmer’s agricultural land. Murmansk Nenets Autonomous Area (Nenets ) 16 FINLAND Armenia Afghanistan TajikistanYamal-Nenets Autonomous Area ICELAND • Improving rights of the • Food security and clean • Food security and clean SWEDEN Karelia Republic of Komi handicapped Arkhangelsk drinking water drinking water

NORWAY • Education for children • Health and hygiene Khanty-Mansi• Training Autonomous Area in agriculture with learning difficulties education • Health and hygiene Leningrad Vologda Komi- Permyak • Guidance for parents with • Road buildingAut. Area to and from education ESTONIA Perm Sverdlovsk Tomsk Novgorod Kostromo handicapped children Kirovremote villages • Flood and earthquake Yaroslavl Udmurtia Tyumen Ivanovo Nizhni Pskov LATVIA• ImprovingTver the health careNovgorod • Training in agriculture preparation Mary El Omsk DENMARK Vladimir LITHUANIA system Moscow Chuvash Kurgan Novosibirsk UNITED Copenhagen Smolensk Tatarstan Kaliningrad Chelyabinsk KINGDOM Kaluga Ryazan Mordovia Bashkortostan REPUBLIC Tula Ulyanovsk BELORUS Penza OF POLAND Bryansk Orel Samara NETHERLANDS Lipetsk Tambov Orenburg IRELAND Altai GERMANY Kursk Saratov BELGIUM Belgorod Voronezh Brussels LUX. CZECH REPUBLIC Volgograd UKRAINE SLOVAKIA KAZAKHSTAN ROMANIA M Rostov AUSTRIA O FRANCE L Astrakhan HUNGARY D SWITZ. O Kalmykia Slovenia Cluj-Napoca Krasnodar Croatia Territory Bucharest Adygheya Stavropol Bosnia Territory Karachaevo- Serbia Kabardino-Chechen In Cherkess g Montenegro Sofia BalkarN. Ossetia-u Alania Daghestan U ITALY BULGARIA GEORGIA ZB EK KYRGYZSTAN Macedonia IST ALBANIA ARMENIA AN SPAIN GREECE AZERBAIJAN PORTUGAL Romania Yerevan TURKMENISTAN TAJIKISTAN TURKEY Dushanbe Xinjiang Uygur Zizhiqu • Free medical care and Kapan Faizabad medicine Kulo˜b Gibraltar (Br.) MALTA Taloqan • Help to tackle social BulgariaCYPRUS Kabul Jammu and TUNISIA Kashmir issues Outreach and supportLEBANON to: AFGHANISTAN Xizang Zizhiqu MOROCCO ISRAEL Himachal (Tibet) • Material help like clothes, • Street children IRAN Pradesh school books, diapers, • Poor families JORDAN Punjab NEPAL ALGERIA KUWAIT Haryana and seed • Elderly and homeless PAKISTAN Delhi Kathmandu Uttar LIBYA Pradesh Bhaira˜hawa˜ Kajasthan Nepal • Education for the poor • Support to orphanage • Income generating activities

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