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By JAY KATZEN , Delegate Representing 31*t District | I have just returned form seeing ; things I hope never to witness again! Acts perpetrated by those I had 1 thought were human, before a God I . still believe to be full of grace.
Picture as best you can fields of <1.2 million souls, surviving literally cheek by jowl, in an unimaginably degrading state of sanitation. Over 20.000 orphaned children, 30 percent of them likely to die from AIDS. Their elders, suffering from( or only just recovering from, cholera, meningitis, dysentery, malnutrition, exposure, or malaria, now await further calamity as the rainy season begins in Eastern Zaire, which will bring yet further misery to those camped on volcanic soil separated from the elements only by plastic tenting and banana leaves. Journalists appropriately characterize the diaspora of Rwanda’s Hutu populai tion as apocalyptic.
Some promising signs do exist. 80.000 bodies were being moved into mass graves upon my arrival to Goma two weeks ago, as team leader of a Virginia Beach-based Operation ; Blessing group of eight doctors, nurses, and paramedics. The mortality rate is dropping for the moment.
Members of our team went through one large camp of 250,000 at Kibumba, rehydrating those in need intravenously, and moving orphans and those requiring medical care to makeshift hospital units. Others, at Ndosho, ministered to the young, whose casualty rate was devastating. Beds of dying infants, which filled their sweltering, fly-bedeviled “clinic,” were emptied each morning and filled again, day after day. I hear their older brothers and sis
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