![]() Though crowdfunding has been a welcome tool to mobilize donations during crisis situations, Patricia McIlreavy, president of the Washington-based Center for Disaster Philanthropy, stresses that donors should be cautious when donating to private efforts through these sites. It could be the young people and older people who have been very outspoken against the different atrocities of committed by the Taliban in the past.” It’s going be women that work in journalism and teachers. “They thought they were going to stay there, with us backing them, for the long haul. “Our focus was the people who wanted to build their country into something great,” he said. The goal, Ford noted, is to ferry Afghan citizens that have been targeted by the Taliban out of the country. Though the deadly suicide bombing at the airport on Thursday complicated their efforts, Ford says those they are helping must have passports, a relative his group can communicate with and someone vouching for them who has passed a background check. government has to be “comfortable with our organization saying these people are OK, and that they have actually done things to help their country, to help our country.” Raven Advisory CEO Sheffield Ford told the AP that in order to transport the people into the airport, the U.S. Without Operation Flyaway's quick funding, that flight wouldn’t have gotten off the ground.” “Their last-minute funding, along with the generous support of the Rockefeller Foundation, Schmidt Futures and other donors, was critical. “They were one of many miracles we experienced in this time,” Shadian said. Sayara's Shadian said he had met “Operation Flyaway” members on Zoom only earlier in the week and in the chaos of the Kabul evacuations was thrilled they agreed to fund the flight. military, said "an all-volunteer team consisting of former Special Forces soldiers and other veterans with expertise in Afghanistan” were working with the military to coordinate their rescue efforts. The company, which says it performs subcontract work for the U.S. Representatives from that North Carolina-based company, Raven Advisory, said they were able to pay for the mission using money raised through Marcus' GoFundMe campaign. The flight from Kabul to Entebbe, Uganda, was organized by Sayara, which advised a company working with Marcus that it knew of a plane available for “Operation Flyaway.” The chartered flight that left Kabul early Wednesday morning is one of several private rescue efforts being organized by various groups, separately and through collaborations, to help Afghans flee. Ugandan officials said the nation would shelter up to 2,000 people who are expected to be relocated elsewhere after a temporary stay in the country. government, Uganda received the evacuees, who will stay at hotels in a city outside the country's capital, Kampala. We are grateful we got out as many people as we did against the greatest odds we’ve ever faced.”Īt the request of the U.S. Simply put, the institutions failed, and it breaks my heart how much more we could have accomplished. Dubrovnik, the center of the Republic of Ragusa, was among that era's wealthiest merchant cities, and it wanted to maintain that status.īut it was a small city and it couldn't afford to simply shut down as the large merchant cities of Venice or Milan did, so city leaders came up with a plan to force visitors to wait on one of the many desolate islands off the coast for 40 days before they were allowed to come ashore."I’m so proud of our extraordinary team and what we were able to accomplish in such a short time,” said Sayara CEO Scott Shadian. She says it all started in 1377, when the Black Death was on its way to killing a third of Europeans. "Torture, or cutting your nose or your ears off." Ivana Marinavić, the head of educational programs at the Lazarettos of Dubrovnik, the first buildings ever constructed for the sole purpose of quarantining, lists some of the consequences for breaking quarantine in the 14th century: The first people to ever be quarantined - more than 500 years ago - had a nice view but not-so-nice consequences if they decided they had had enough of it. This is the view from one of the quarantine cells.ĭUBROVNIK, Croatia - The first state-imposed quarantine happened here, in present-day Dubrovnik, Croatia, an ancient walled city atop the cliffs of the Adriatic Sea. For nearly three centuries, the Republic of Ragusa, where modern-day Dubrovnik is centered, forced visitors to spend 40 days on the remote islands off the coast of the walled city, but in the 17th century, the city built the Lazarettos, a series of buildings immediately outside the city where visitors had to quarantine.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |