Much attention has been focused on the decisions that international humanitarian-aid workers in Iraq have been facing in recent weeks. But friends, we also need to give thoughts and prayers to their colleagues elsewhere. And particularly right now, to the aid workers and skill-sharers in Somaliland.
(Don’t know where or what Somaliland is? Go to the site I link to on the right sidebar here called “A Taste of Africa”, where you can learn lots about it.)
Back on October 5, Italian aid worker Annalena Tonelli, who had been in Somaliland for many decades, was shot dead there by unknown assailants. Yvette Lopez, the author of Taste of Africa, has written a lot of posts about Annalena’s life and death. Check out this one, or go to the special section on Annalena down on her left sidebar.
Then, about ten days ago, a British couple called the Eyeingtons who were house-parents at the SOS Children’s Village there were also gunned down.
You can imagine how terrifying this is for the other brave souls–pitifully few in number–who have gone from distant countries to share skills and do aid work in Somaliland.
Yvette herself is one of them. She’s a Filipina social activist/organizer and has been doing some really amazing work in Somaliland under the auspices of an international, Catholic-run (I believe) skill-sharing organization.
You can see the courageous way Yvette has been trying to deal with the latest set of security challenges, while also continuing to make good on her deep commitment to the projects she’s been working with in Somaliland, if you read her posts from most of October.
I’m headed over to Taste of Africa right now, and I’m going to post some good wishes there for Yvette so she knows I care about her. Why don’t you join me and do the same?
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