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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2002 21:54:35 +0800
From: Rucina Ballinger

Subject: Tuesday night update from bali

Folks,

You are going to be getting these bulletins from the ground for a while--I know they're off-line but also feel it's important information for people to know. The donation funds, of which I sent out info two days ago, are both run by friends of mine and are on the up and up, and now tax deductible. The money will go to Indonesians who need money for ongoing medical care. PLEASE HELP.

Thanks!

Thank you everyone for the outpouring of support for the Bali Relief Efforts! Sorry for the gap in communications today it has been very busy consolidating all our efforts over here, so that we can all join forces down at Sanglah but as you can see below the results are good, and there has been lots of progress on the ground.

Cash Donations Needed:

Please click on to either of these links for International and local donations:

www.casalunabali.com/relief or www.balisos.com

WHAT'S HAPPENING ON THE GROUND TODAY

Relief efforts have become better organized over the past day with the volunteer teams at the Hospital defining more specific needs for volunteers. (see list below if you are interested in joining up)

The well organized Bali Hati / Casa Luna Volunteer relief group has joined forces with the idep team that were down there from the outset, and a committee has been organized to coordinate efforts. Part of the team is a group of 50 Balinese University students.

Everyone is helping with cleaning, data consolidation on patients and 2 Indonesian students have been assigned to each ward / patient. These students are doing a needs assessments for patients and their families.

There are also hundreds of volunteers including The BIWA team, numerous tourists, locals and the Ubud "Scooter Club" with sixty members on standby.

he local organization Promo Sandiyawan group (JRKB), is showing a huge turnout of support from hundreds of Indonesians. They are working tirelessly day and night on the ground at the bombing site clearing debris, and up until recently recovering more bodies, as well by counseling families in need of help, supplying medicines and food to those in need. By tomorrow we hope to be able to have their report updates translated into English for you and sent out. They are doing an amazing job on the ground.

The foreign Forensic Team has arrived and has sealed the morgue to undergo a
thorough process of identification. How identification of local victims will work is still unclear as the standard dental record system isn't applicable for most local victims. More information will be available in the next few days. They have stated that nobody is considered deceased and will be classified as "Missing Persons" until the Forensic Team has positively identified the body. So please disregard any earlier list you have seen as there seem to be a lot of discrepancies on lists that have been published in the media and on-line to date.

PEOPLE INTERESTED IN VOLUNTEERING ON THE GROUND:

At Sanglah we need volunteers who can work a consistent shift (four-six hours) over a minimum of three days as it takes more time for the existing team to constantly retrain new volunteers. In addition, volunteers should work within a specific area for those three days. The specific areas with the highest priority listed first:

1. Trained Medical Personnel or Nurses who know how to dispense medicine -Needed : 4 people per shift
2. Data Entry People who have good computer skills - Needed : 6 people per shift
3. Grief Counselors - needed : 10 people per shift
4. Crisis Center - needed : 2 people per shift who have Indonesian / Bahasa language skills
5. Volunteer Team - needed : 2 people per shift
6. Front Door Orientation - needed : 1 person per shift

Balinese and Indonesians, please call
The Promo Sandiyawan group (JRKB) Tel. 257503 or 257504

Westerners and Tourists, please call
The Casa Luna Ubud support group: Tel. 973283

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