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Beregsurany

After arriving in Budapest, Hungary, on 18 August, an AMDA nurse headed to Beregsurany (a village on the border with Ukraine) on the 20th to take part in the ongoing aid work. This marked the 9th dispatch of relief personnel from Japan. 

The nurse joined the preceding team at a local help center for Ukrainian evacuees, and has been engaged in maintaining the health condition of those taking shelter there. Likewise, the team has been caring for the facility staff who have supported the evacuees around the clock.

Ms. Vedha, a former staff at AMDA Peace Clinic in Bodhgaya, India, has been running a nursing home at Sripur village located on the outskirts of the city. It has been some time since AMDA started offering constant support to the facility through efforts such as food assistance and water-well construction projects.

The local economy was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic which wreaked havoc on the tourism sector in the last two years. Likewise, the nursing home suffered a great loss in the number of donations it received. This forced the facility to occasionally rely on food

Beregsurany

AMDA’s aid workers (one nurse and one coordinator) have been continuously working at a help center for Ukrainian evacuees in Hungary’s Beregsurany village, which is on the border with Ukraine. With the center’s staff, they have been engaged in maintaining the facility environment while handling other aid work. The AMDA nurse has also been checking the health condition of every evacuee at the center. 

On 11 August, an evacuee with epilepsy arrived without

Beregsurany

At a help center set up for Ukrainian evacuees in Hungary’s Beregsurany village, the number of those arriving from war zones has been gradually increasing since late July. The AMDA team (one nurse and one coordinator) has been preparing food and drinks while maintaining the facility environment with the center’s staff.

In addition to the above, an AMDA nurse has been checking the health condition of every evacuee at the shelter by utilizing a check sheet that she developed on her own.

New activity phase: AMDA to assist mobile clinic activities

As of 13 July, an AMDA coordinator has been working at the help center for Ukrainian evacuees in Beregsurany, a Hungarian village bordering with war-torn Ukraine. 

As months have passed since the crisis began, moving from the help center to the next destinations has become a lot easier and smoother for those who fled the war zones. Accordingly, the number of those who stay at the center has become less, although 11 people were still taking shelter there that day.

On 25 December 2021, 10 graduates of *Jeanamitabh Free Boarding School in Bihar, India, received AMDA Awards for their outstanding academic achievements. Since they graduated from the school, the students are currently attending high school and university in the locality. 

The 10 students were chosen through a screening process in which the award commission comprising five members (the school officials and others including a Rotarian)

By Dr. Archana Shrestha Joshi (AMDA Headquarters) Members of AMDA Nepal’sinfection prevention projectreceiving food itemsAfter the first COVID-19 case was identified in Nepal on 23 January

Responding to the extreme summer heat

As part of countermeasures to prevent heat stroke, AMDA’s relief team (one nurse and one coordinator) has been providing bottled water at the help center for Ukrainian evacuees in Beregsurany, Hungary. 

The region, which lies in the eastern part of the country, has been experiencing exceptionally hot summer this year with the highest temperature reaching 38 degrees Celsius. It is said the temperature usually stays around 27 even at the hottest time of the year.

Sending food items to Ukraine

On 18 June, two AMDA nurses purchased food items to be sent to Ukraine with local aid workers in Beregsurany, a Hungarian village at the border where evacuees had been arriving from the war zones. 

In a few days’ time, foodstuffs such as flour, cooking oil, pasta, cereals, sugar, tinned foods and meat products are expected to reach those who are facing food shortages on the other side of the border. 

Play activities with mums and kids in Beregsurany

On 13 June, compared to how it usually was, more mums and kids were seen