Edinburgh direct aid
Convoys
The first convoy was a Volvo car with a 1-ton trailer and a caravan carrying blankets and clothing to refugee camps near Zagreb and some drugs at the request of a Zagreb hospital. It was realized then that although refugees in Croatia needed help, the worst was needed in Bosnia, so from then on it is, EDA went.
From September 1992 to September 1996, the EDA took 33 different groups of volunteers from Edinburgh to the former Yugoslavia, which delivers over 2,000 tonnes of aid for hundreds of separate missions in Bosnia. Some of this work was done in collaboration with York Sarajevo Link (YSL) who gave a portion of tea economy and staff. YSL also arranged visits by Saraejovo Football Team in July 1994. They played one match agaionst York City, but unfortunately their matches in Scotland had to be canceled because Sottish Football Association denied them permission to play because of lack of evidence from Bosnian Football Association (which did not exist at that time.
Two trucks – four trucks – Six trucks – eight trucks
In the mid '93 convoys routinely included two or three 7.5 and one or two 17-tonne vansiven outright or loaned for an indefinite time (including a 17-ton furniture van from Halley Transport), is missing from the disadvantages, but is supported by EDA dedicated volunteer mechanics, over the toughest of the Bosnian consider the worst of Bosnian winters and the long distances over Germany motorways. "Big Yin", a faithful 17-ton Bedford, retired penalty when hit by Serb mortars at Mount Igman in May 1995. The Halley truck and Ango, a 17-ton gift of Brewers eventually was given to Stevenson College, Edinburgh for their students to work on (they often service EDA vehicles). Replacements included vehicles donated by Land Rover Finance. Leyland DAF, Lex Trans Fleet, EDA South Coast and Heriot School: This ultimately gave the EDA a somewhat more modern fleet of five 1,317 tonne trucks, two 7.5 tonners and a Land Rover. In May 1995 saw Convoy 29 thirteen EDA vehicles powered support from Split to Sarajevo.
Destinations
Each convoy delivered its first load of Edinburgh, then took whatever pressures necessary to move to other relief organizations such as Feed the Children, Christian Aid, The Soros Foundation from Croatia to Bosnia. Delivery targets were selected on the advice of UNHCR, the Bosnian government representatives, and British Army liaison.
Aid workers who target
Despite UNPROFOR escorts in sensitive areas, EDA and other aid workers were shot. Christine Witcutt was killed by a sniper, leaving Sarajevo in July 1993 In the summer of 1994 Edinburgh direct aid convoys took advantage of newly opened General Rose Lue Route over the airport, which has made it possible to achieve Sarajevo over Mount Igman without crossing Serbian linesut not without crossing their gun sights. Until the opening of the highway after the Dayton Agreement, ran EDA regular convoys over Mount Igman track in varying conditions of danger from rain, snow, ice, passing vehicles, and sometimes, mortar, tank and machine gun fire. Finally shots found their mark: Denis Rutovitz EDA President was wounded. A truck was hit and drove of the road, and Andy Sutherland, driving, escaped the synthesis of miracle. EDA has suspended deliveries of a planned 11,000 food parcels to the school and hospital staffs. Glasgow-based Convoy of Mercy have been trying to finish the delivery, but Neil Golightly, their top organizer, was killed and a second truck and load of parcels lost. EDA finally took the remaining 2,000 parcels after Britishrench Rapid Reaction Force and U.S. A10s silence peoples guns in September 1995.
Drug
From 1992 to 1997, delivered EDA hospital beds, theatrical wear and drapes, lab coats, nurses uniforms, sterilizers, X-ray and other equipment, intravenous fluids, giving sets, antibiotics and a wide range of medicines that are available, or requested, directly to hospitals, homes for disabled and chronically ill, clinics and laboratories in Sarajevo, Gornji Vakuf, Gorade, Biha, Tuzla, Travnik, Vitez, Zenica and Fojnica
First International postwar Medical Conference in Sarajevo
The personal interest EDA deputy chair, Professor Jeanne Bell, resulted in EDA is the only charity to provide laboratory equipment materials and equipment for the diagnostic pathology labs in Bosnia during the war: the diagnosis is Cinderella of medical services during the war, but the disease a normal life is not removable on this account.
Four months after the signing of the Dayton Peace Agreement which ended the conflict in former Yugoslavia, the first after war pathology conference in Bosnia-Herzegovina held in Sarajevo at the invitation of the Department of Pathology and the medical faculty. This meeting was sponsored by the Soros Open Society Fund Bosnia-Herzegovina, with generous additional support from the International Society of neuropathology, the British Embassy in Sarajevo and Applied Imaging International (UK) and held of 16-18 May 1996. The program included keynote presentations from invited international speakers and situation reports from pathology departments in Bosnia. The main objective was for participants to formulate a program to reinstate pathology services, both diagnostic and academic who had been brought to the brink of total collapse in the last four years. The resulting conference report was subsumed in the general plans for the reconstruction of medical services in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
EDA DISABILITY: The Fojnica Homes
Fojnica is a small town about 40 kilometers west of Sarajevo. In the remote villages in Drin and Bakovii there are two nursing homes each looking after about 300 disabled children and adults, and mental disturbance adults respectively.
1993 horror
During the match between Croatian militias and Bosnian government forces April 1993 April 1994 these homes were on the confrontation lines. At Drin at a time when the fighting was so intense that the staff normally allocated was too afraid to come into work, and disabled children and adults were left untended for more than 48 hours, with appalling effect. Alerted by one of the nurses who went over the mountains through the fighting lines and minefields, UNHCR sent a batch with an UNPROFOR escort to investigate. Maureen Lyons, Edinburgh direct aid representative in Sarajevo, was one of the first on the scene in her capacity as UNHCR social services officer. She lived with the children 10 terrible days until United Nations succeeded in establishing an agreement to respect the neutrality of hospitals and medical teams from Canadian and British forces arrived.
Progress, but …
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There is no longer a threat to the physical safety of inmates or staff, the services has been restored, central and cantonal governments provide minimal support. But the staff is much lower than they should be, with meager wages and irregular. Home and patients are kept clean, care is regular and affectionate, but opportunities for exercise, play, development of potential, and therapy is unfortunately limited. Food supplies, clothing, footwear, sanitary supplies, toiletries and fuel have been very short indeed, at times, and still is short now – enough to keep alive, but not much more.
Help jog along
Edinburgh Direct support had made regular deliveries to the Drin and Bakovii since September 1994. These included family packages for staff, food supplements, toiletries, basic medical supplies, footwear, material for writing and drawing, basketballs and other sports equipment, winter clothes and shoes. Scheduler getting better – help from Edinburgh Healthcare Trust and Soros Foundation
After a week-long mission Fojnica as a party from Moray House and Gogarburn in May 1996, seven executives from the two institutions visited Edinburgh at the invitation of Edinburgh direct aid and Edinburgh Healthcare Trust, with support from the Soros Foundation Open Society Fund. The purpose the visit was to enable visitors to see first hand the possibilities for improving care and progress to independence of disabled children and adults, modern methods, new methods and appropriate personnel to bring
The Fojnica-Gogarburn Axis
Over the 1996 Christmas / Hogmanay period, Alastair Murdoch, senior physiotherapist at Gogarburn, met with the Christmas convoy in Sarajevo. He and Angus Green Leaves spent two weeks working at Fojnica, helping to train staff in the use of newly acquired physical therapy and generally help with treating patients. In October 1997, stood Alastair Murdoch an EDA group will Fojnica, deliver and install a complete Snoezeln room (a specially equipped relaxation tion-stimulation therapy room) and to introduce a program of voluntary support for both institutions.
Sizeable progress
Physiotherapy programs are up and running on both home, largely equipped with Edinburgh direct support work with the Edinburgh Healthcare Trust. Care has moved beyond mere physical maintenance, a positive incentive for development. Game rooms, art rooms, occupational therapy, and a music therapy program is now available. Smiles break out! There is still a long way to go, but largely inspired by experience of the possible in Edinburgh, the directors and staff have put together their own development plan, and found further support from other donors.
For today
EDA support for Fojnica has continued, with many deliveries of food, clothing, footwear, furniture and toys. In 1999 a very welcome visit from a dentist was arranged. Again this year, spent two trained volunteers EDA few months assisting overworked and rarely paid staff in their daily chores. EDA is currently (2001) to send an engineer and technician from its construction team in Biha to assess the possibility of reducing overcrowding by building another floor on top of the main building.
Arts and Sports
EDA is committed to supporting and restoring the richness and diversity of sporting, artistic and intellectual life in multi-ethnic, multicultural Bosnia. To this end, EDA has brought art exhibitions from Sarajevo to the Edinburgh festival, taking works of art from the UK for an exhibition in Sarajevo, and helped restart the Sarajevo music library. At the height of the siege, conveyed EDA 22 tons of newsprint from Split to Sarajevo to help newspapers keep publishing – and with help from General Sir Michael Rose brought a FCSarajevo / Railway Club football team to Scotland to play exhibition matches and fundraising!
EDA first REFUGEE RETURN PROJECT (1996/97)
In 1995 there were thousands of refugees from Bosnia in Britain. Most were Muslim or mixed parentage and marriages and were forced from their homes in case of unbelievable horror. Many lost all their family in massacres. Yet most longed to return to their homes. In 1996 and 1997, Edinburgh direct aid helped the 370 brave men and women and their children, to return to Bosnia to try to rebuild their lives and communities there. EDA
work in cooperation with International Organisation for Migration (IOM), UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the BiH Ministry for Refugees and the local authorities in Klju and other Bosnian towns.
picked up the refugees, wherever they lived in Britain.
looked after them on the road (we send a trained nurse and counselor with the coach and arrange accommodation at night stop).
train each family furniture and other belongings they had managed to get in the UK so that they were not left in a state of complete poverty.
so them through customs, passport, visa and registration problems.
helped them to move back into their houses, by removing up rubble and mess and trying to do at least one few rooms usually wrecked houses weatherproof.
kept in touch and tried to maintain the feeling of people over there are cared for by people over here
EDA was the only organization that offers assistance of this nature and quality of Bosnian refugees in the UK who want to return home
Where will people live?
Through the length and width of Bosnia, wasnd eye in some places still isssaulted of crushed houses: skeletal roofless walls, shells of buildings with gaping window sockets, or simply piles of rubble.
In a small group of villages near the town Klju in N. West Bosnia, nearly 3,500 of a total of 4,000 houses had been damaged significantly. Some of them who returned to their homes with assistance from Edinburgh direct aid were forced to spend a winter in houses with only remnants of a roof, walls with sheets over windows and a cold water hose for water if they were lucky. In July 1997, with funds allocated by the European Commission, EDA launched a project to repair 150 houses in the villages mentioned. Program focuses on those least able to help themselves, especially the many women who had lost brothers, husbands, sons in the massacres in July 1992. In about two thirds of cases, the materials only and some talented help was given. But in the case of women alone, or the elderly or infirm, EDA has the whole job through local contractors.
In March 1998 all was complete. Yesterday, with help from Scottish Power, Liz McLaughlin and her team turned the light back on in one of the villages where supply had been destroyed.
1998: Rebulding society and civil life in KLJU and its villages
Education Support Program: EDA provided written materials, school furniture, sports equipment, refurbished computers and other teaching materials. A number of English language courses were given by TEFL-trained volunteers. Local Clinic: EDA put devices and supplies. An ambulance were purchased and supplied by Rotary District 1140th Job opportunities: practical steps included
creation of a woodworking company in the manufacture of floors and other joinery products .. In 2001, still going strong, with seven men employed in the carpentry shop.
smallholdings: These are crofting villages. EDA delivered two 36 HP tractors to help cultivate ground and with Rotary in 1140, helping to establish egg production of income.
workshop: with help from Monmouth Aid, Malteser and the Office of Overseas Development, equipped EDA a woman co-operative sewing group with 12 industrial sewing machines and table two industrial cutters and many pallets of cloth (mostly won in June Cormy Edinburgh-based Cloth Shop). This employment to 12 women for some years.
Fire engine and Rubbish Truck: With help from the Scottish Office and Sterling Council, the EDA has delivered a Green Goddess fire engine and a rubbish compactor – both badly need.
19992000: Reconstruction in Bosnia
ECHO EC European Community Humanitarian organization assigned Edinburgh direct three support contracts (totaling nearly one million) to rebuild the war seriously damaged 142 houses in the north-western Bosnia. Of these, 67 of the Bosnian Serbs while 75 are for Muslim families. The work went well, and thanks to the good management of Liz McLaughlin in the field, and George McNeill on the financial side, EDA could complete Around 10% more houses than originally contracted, while the remaining within budget.
EDA and the Scottish Charities Kosovo Appeal, 1998-2000
In October 1998 requesting EDA all Scottish charities with an interest in the Balkans for a conference in the city departments. Most agree that some form of cooperation was desirable. The first practical step as a result of the conference in February 1999, a convoy of nine volunteer donated caravans to Kukes on Albania / Kosovo border for use by the Kosovo refugees.
Next In February 1999 a number of interested Scottish Charities joined together to form the Scottish Charities Kosovo Appeal in Edinburgh direct aid coordination committee Charity.
Shortly after SCKA first appeal was launched by Radio Forth, the Sunday Mail took it up, and Sir Tom Farmer offered the support of the logistical, financial and administrative services in Kwik-Fit. This resulted in a possible influx of more than 500,000 of gifts to SCKA, and a large quantity of goods, clothing, bedding, food and toiletries to Kwik-Fit Centres across Scotland. SCKA was formally established as consisting of six charitable organizations:
Shetland Aid
Edinburgh direct aid
Connect Humanitarian Relief
No limits for Humanitarian Assistance
Blythewood Care
New Hope Trust
Dumfries and Galloway Aid was formed specifically to relief efforts launched, but later dissolved; Scottish International Relief participated in a couple weeks then retreated. Later Mission East Trust joined Consortium. Legally the association is created as a part of Edinburgh direct aid, but with an independent management committee. President of SCKA is in agreement, Nigel Griffiths MP. Executive Committee composed of representatives of each charity, a representative of Kwik-Fit and the President. Later SCKA was joined by LASEDAK (London and South East direct support) Technical another subsidiary of EDA.
Macedonia, April 1999
Tens of thousands of refugees power expelled from their homes in Pristina and elsewhere found their way to the Macedonian border, and also on the border with Albania in Kukes in the north. Originally not permitted to Macedonia, they spent days and weeks in appalling conditions in the open in sleet and snow, without food, sanitation or clean water, and always behind them, the Serbian paramilitary.
Helped by the generosity of Virgin Atlantic and Direct Holidays SCKA sent 70 tonnes of food, clothing and toiletries, with flights to Skopje airport in Macedonia and Thessaloniki in Greece. These were greeted with the first SCKA party on earth, and distributed by the British troops are responsible for Stankovac camp near the border.
Responding to the urgent needs were not met, and in collaboration with International Medical Corps, a dental clinic was established in Stankovac camp. This clinic saved 30 patients daily from the misery of untreated tooth abscess and affordable teeth
Albania, May and June 1999
12 large trucks filled with aid were sent overland through a combination of donated vehicles with volunteer drivers and commercial trucks. They went to Korca in southern Albania, where refugees from Kosovo were arriving in increasing numbers.
SCKA chartered a 1,500-tonne vessel to load at Leith Port and go directly to Durrs in Albania. The ship, 30 trucks filled with clothes and bedding, 50 tonnes of mixed food, 100 tonnes of flour and 20 tons of toiletries for the Kosovo refugees in Albania. Stephanie Wolfe Murray (of Connect Humanitarian Aid) introduced a SCKA team (Peregrine Douglas-Home & two volunteers) in Albania to receive the ship and distribute goods to refugees.
The situation in Albania was not easy there was a constant struggle against petty theft of port workers, neighborhood children, petty Mafia bosses and bureaucratic interference in everything, but there was a great help for the good neighbors, from Greek and Italian NATO soldiers (AFORS) from other NGOs. Most of the products were distributed to refugees staying with host families, with a portion going to the hosts, who were almost always in equal need. Day after long hot dusty thief matches day, SCKA volunteers provided clothing, food, toiletries in Tirana, Skodra, Korca
June 1999
Edinburgh direct aid 200,000 from a concert organized by the Sunday Mail: these and other funds collected by the Constituent charities went to support SCKA Kosovo project
July 1999
SCKA was one of the first NGO to arrive in Pristina on the heels of NATO SCKA decided to "adopt 10 villages grouped around Polac and Qirez in the hard-hit Drenica valley, near Mitrovica. A team was established there, led again by Stephanie Wolfe-Murray with occasional administrative support from EDA, and staffed by volunteers of the Constituent charities.
August 1999 Summer 2000
By agreement with UNHCR and the main local aid organization, Mother Theresa Society, SCKA assumed responsibility for delivery to the adopted villages all supplies from the World Food Programme and UNHCR, and the provision of winter shelter.
Septemberctober 1999
Delivery of winter held back from spring collection began. Scotland dressed Kosovo! nearly 50 largest size combinations brought clothing, bedding, food and toiletries from SCKA stores around Edinburgh, with contributions from Aberdeen and Inverness. Distribution was not only SCKA transport team on site, but the British and other KFOR units, and many other NGO
September and December 1999
Christian Aid supported SCKA shelter work by a 360,000 grant (through the EDA). DFID (the British International Development) made grants totaling 220,000 for the purchase of tools, chickens and tractor parts to villages (via Connect and Humanitarian Assistance) and a means for the project. Shelter work progressed in the adopted and the surrounding villages. SCKA respondents ultimately 400 + houses and issued vouchers for the supply of building materials from a local timber merchant: gradually over 200 wooden roof was permanently repaired roofs and temporarily covered with heavy plastic. Over 500 hot and dry spaces were created. Because SCKA was not locked in a system of predefined "Tag-kits" that could respond flexibly to the need: using a local supplier SCKA program was more successful than was the case with some other NGOs. USAID made further timber and supplies available. LASEDAK (London and South East direct support) brought in funds for school repairs and supplies.
December-February
Christian Aid is given an additional 40,000 for emergency housing work. SCKA joined UNHCR and Malteser in a program to supply 400 weatherproof and well insulated prefabricated container-size shelters for families without a decent winter accommodation. Malteser prefabricated units SCKA and UNHCR field officers assessed the need and selected recipients SCKA and Malteser teams delivered and assembled units.
April-May – a three-year-old back to life
SCKA (through no borders) arranged transportation to the UK (Mission East) for a surgery in Aberdeen, who saved the life of a 3 year old boy, VISAR, wasting away with an oesophageal obstruction. The operation was completely successful. A crisis on the return journey was solved by LASEDAK
March-May
SCKA assisted in drafting business plans and obtaining credit for small businesses: a eg: repair of a damaged grain mill, the purchase of a combine harvester, the purchase of diesel test equipment. Some of these were LASEDAK projects.
World Food Programme and UNHCR supplies supplies was scaled down, but SCKA continued supply to sensitive areas through international drivers. LASEDAK made further funds available for school repairs.
EDA 2d Refugee repatriation program in April August 2000
IOM (International Organization for Migration), acting at the request of the British Government requested EDA arrange for uplift, shipping and delivery of personal belongings and furniture of the Kosovo refugees in the UK came home by plane during the British program of voluntary return. There were over 300 families to be repatriated, spread across the length and breadth of the UK.
Scheme: EDA volunteers would gather the furniture, wherever it was, take appropriate ranking stocks. Long journey would be done a courier, John Shirley Ltd. At the far end, trucks would be received by SCKA / EDA team in Mitrovica and delivered content to local users via SCKA trucks. Total cost was estimated at EDA traditional 50 per cubic meter, and each family was theoretically permitted up to 12 cu. Meter.
Make it:
John Shirley did us proud ultimately results in 20 of the largest volume of commercial vehicles on the road.
Our volunteers did us even prouder, collecting CDs throughout Ulverston, Dover, Glasgow, Leeds, to name just a few collection points. Haley Clark and Janis Noble did most of the planning and organization, and a good portion of the work. Haley, Janis, Des Stewart, Peter Boyd, David Reeks and many other EDA regulars and newcomers fastened 1,800 cubic meters of 200 tons of clothes and beds and bedding, wardrobes and cookers, televisions, boxes of food, bundles of baby clothes all along corridors, down the stairs across the courtyard gardens, and up to the trucks: then transferred to the warehouse and uploaded again for the long haul vehicles. It was demonstrated that EDA women volunteers can load washing machines single-handed at high lifts, trucks, no problem! one of the true sound of uplift and along with Janis Noble, its organization tell you more. Many by John Shirley drivers when they heard that our people were all volunteers, put in together: as did the social services reps of some towns (but not one that must be nameless, where they claimed to be insured for manual labor, then stood and looked then asked for attendance fees!)
Refugees in the South East had overall fewer possessions than elsewhere, but there were still several truckloads: all collections in the London area were carried out by the remarkable Martin Chapel)
KwikFit organized storage space in Birmingham, and Blythswood (a member of the Scottish Charities Kosovo Appeal) allowed use of their depot in Rochester. Another warehouse was rented in Huddersfield.
It SCKA transport team in Mitrovica, led by Pat Rutherford, handled the distribution in Kosovo. The team of local drivers who found all the destinations, and endured the inevitable complaints concerning articles broken and missing: made the effort to replace or compensate for losses, probably not for everyone's satisfaction. But most customers were happy enough to see their products arrive.
In the end everything was done, more or less within budget.
West Lothian Council
Edinburgh direct aid has collaborated with many agencies and civil authorities, but none as close as the West Lothian Council.
June 1999
EDA / SCKA was awarded an EAR (European Agency for Reconstruction) Agreement for permanent repair of over 400 houses (including the replacement of plastic roofing previously supplied). Contract value was 600.000 Euro. + Materials. 2000/2001
Reconstruction
In Bosnia we [who?] Finished ECHO contracts sailing in 1999/2000, and signed up for a new program for minority return, in Klju and Bosanski Krupa. In Kosovo, working as SCKA / EDA, we applied for and obtained an EAR (European Reconstruction Agency) grant for house repairs and reconstruction in Srbica municipality: there are in scope of our dopted villages. Some of SCKA believed that the contract should have been applied for jointly by the Scottish Charities: but past experience showed that given the size of the financial responsibility, we would have to bear would be best as an EDA venture.
Management was originally conferred old friend Jonathan Dames: but after a few months Jonathan went further, and the only course seemed to be bringing in Liz McLaughlin to manage both Kosovo and Bosnia and projects. This was duly done with great success:
Results:
65 + finished houses in Bosnia, most complete conversion. Contract value, 750,000
500 + homes repaired, rebuilt in Kosovo, two thirds complete reconstruction. Contract value 750,000 plus cost of materials.
EDA was often top of the AER NGO performance league in Kosovo. In Bosnia, the EDA was the only NGO invited to a presentation to EU ambassadors in Krupa, resulting in 75.00 grants from the Portuguese embassy to rebuild a school! A new contract has just been issued by the U.S. Bureau of Refugess and Migration, reconstruction and minority protection in return Krupa Srebrenica. Value, $ 700,000
The Christine Witcutt Memorial Day-Care Center
January 2001: a three-way contract was signed with Vladimir Nazor special needs School and Municipality of New Sarajevo. The contract specifies
the Centre should be housed in a custom built but vacant building in the Vladimir Nazor school.
that the school will manage and run the center under superivision of a management committee representing all parties.
that the EDA will meet all operating costs for five years
municipality will take financial responsibility after five years. The center opened in September 2001
References
^ Serbs and Croats Attack besieged Bosnian city – New York Times
^ House of Commons Hansard Debates for 31 May 1995
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