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CHENGDU "Today we visited the Chengdu Social Welfare Institutions - we stood with the staff for the three minute of silence to commence a 3 day period of national mourning. It began at 2:28 pm, marking the very moment the massive quake struck in Wenchuan County, Sichuan. Flags flew at half-mast, the people wore white flowers and, heads bowed, held hands. Across the country, horns and sirens wailed in grief. The staff at Chengdu were very upset and as I held the hand of the orphanage
director she started to cry, the foster care team are all OK and all the
families and the children placed in Chengdu are safe all the 500 plus children
in the Chengdu Social Welfare Institutions were OK.
DEYANG On the road there were constant convoys of up to 10 ambulances with flashing lights and sirens heading for Chengdu the other way a constant stream of trucks taking aid to the stricken areas. We also saw search and rescue teams that had come from Yunnan and Beijing. Arriving in Deyang we were met by the Orphanage director who took us to the empty but battered small orphanage, the children (58 plus some old people) had been evacuated into some open land sleeping in relief tents there were two cots with about 12 babies in. The director then took us to see a man with both legs plastered (bandaged with rough plaster of cast) when the earthquake struck he got most of the children out of the building the last few were stuck so he climbed through a window and then with two children in his arms jumped out of the window breaking his legs.
CfC has donated RMB 50,000 to the Deyang Social Welfare Institutions for emergency relief of bedding, nappies, food milk powder and clothing. 100 sports suites will be sent to Deyang and we would like to send 100 small hygiene kits as a high priority for the children and staff. Need toys! We have just been given permission by the Civil Affairs to visit Mianyang Social Welfare Institutions 170 km north of Chengdu this is where most of the ambulances were coming from today, we have heard that the orphanage and the school was devastated by the earthquake. We will visit a school in Chengdu in the morning that has become home to 150 children that were evacuated from Wenchuan County." Robert
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