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ARCHIVE - 2003

Jennifer Report

November 7th 2003. Angel Foundation is currently working with other humanitarian organizations to establish Angel Foundation Crises Management Centers (CMC's) at strategic locations worldwide. These $13.5 million/each locations will greatly improve the ability to respond to emergency situations worldwide. Included in each CMC are health and medical support, along with extensive food and water distribution ability. Educational support for each region is also planned for the near future.
The number of crises situations seem to be expanding at a greater pace. 

Consider the following:

According to the WFP (World Food Program), Democratic Republic of Congo: There are women, girls, as young as five and as old as 80, who have been systematically raped several times, tortured and injured by firearms. Further violence has resumed in parts of South Kivu.

OCHA: Flash floods in Indonesia have left hundreds homeless.

WFP (World Food Program): Appeals for relief: US311 million as 6.5 million people face severe hunger in South Africa.

October 1st. Angel Foundation has two teams in DR Congo. We are also looking at setting up permanent "Crises Management Centers" in strategic locations world wide. This will allow us to get teams to emergency situation locations in the minimal amount of time.

August 26th. Prince Mikhail, who recently inherited a "Substantial" amount of property in both Great Britain and France, has sold the property and donated all the proceeds to Angel Foundation in support of AF Crises Management Centers (AFCMC) in Africa.  The continued conflicts in Africa have required additional financial investments for relief aid. 

Prince Mikhail is currently looking at the purchase of a castle in Europe to donate to be used as the International headquarters for Angel Foundation as well as a Christian retreat for AF Child Ambassadors and their families.

27th July: Angel Foundation teams have returned safely home from the Congo.

26th July: AF is monitoring the rapidly deteriorating situation in Liberia. At this point no AF teams will be going to this area. 

26th July: Planning is taking place for two more teams to travel to Africa - Ethiopia and Sudan. 

24th June: AF continues to work in DR Congo. The attacks on civilians continue. FIA,   Red Cross and other relief organizations continue to help, but the increased death of children are overwhelming. Crowds have formed around the UN compounds in search of protection. Please write to your respective political contacts and ask for help and then pray for the children.

For the first time, the media has drawn attention to the situation. Photos here (see People in Action 2) are credited to Associated Press’s Christine Nesbitt and Syyid Azim.

According to the International Rescue Committee, 3 million Congolese have lost their lives during the 2.5-year war.  Kabinda, a city of 140,000 has been under siege for 2 years and remains encircled today. Rebels raid villages across the country and force many villagers to hide in the bush, feeding their families on cassava leaves, cooked cow skins, bats and caterpillars. Ntambue Ntambua brought two of his starving children through rebel held territory to the hospital in Kabinda. He watched two of his children die and now must go back for the rest of his children before they all die. He has spent a year of hiding in the bush.  Measles and malaria contribute to additional deaths.

Angel Foundation will be sending two teams to the region to help the children. Please help us by contacting your respective government officials and ask… demand that they do something to help these children. Then pray.

5th June: Prince Mikhail would like to advise all that he is out of hospital and well and thanks those who kindly sent cards and flowers.

We send our thanks to all who have sent letters, cards and flowers in memory of Dr Marc Pilkington and Masahiko Tanaka. To the families who remain, we send our prayers.

17 April:We received confirmation from PARE (France) that two members of the Angel Foundation team and one member of the PARE team were killedsouth of Bukavu (Democratic Republic of Congo). 

Marc Pilkington (Personal Assistant to Prince Mikhail) Masahiko Tanaka (AF Ronen Team) along with one member of the French team (name withheld) were traveling south to the village of Burhale. The deaths are under investigation at present and no reason has yet been given. 

Tanaka, a retired martial arts expert from Japan, helped form the Ronen Team for Angel Foundation and had visited Africa on three separate occasions for the Angel Foundation. He will be greatly missed.

Marc Pilkington had joined the mission at Bukavu.  At the request of his family Marc will be buried in England. We at Af will will miss him tremendously.

More details on both will be posted soon on the AF memorial page.

10 April: The AF team has been re-routed to DR Congo to help the French relief organization, PARE with the transport and delivery of hospital goods for the people of tIturi Province. With the killing of close to 1,000 civilians in the Drodo massacre, movement of relief goods had been delayed. The AF Japanese team will assist.

An AF team will be leaving for Iraq on Wednesday, 9 April, to assist with relief evaluation. Latest information appears that the number of  refugees is less than originally expected.

AF will be building an orphanage/school for children in Mexico. Requests for additional child care on the outskirts of Tijuana are great!

26 March 2003: The killing of British POWs is intolerable. Our condolences and prayers go to all the families impacted by this war.

 American troops are now in Northern Iraq. Requirements are being assessed, prior to sending AF teams into the area.

The possibility of troops from Turkey moving into Norther Iraq has increased to the point that AF is holding off sending a team there.    Updates to follow.

21 March 2003: Still only hours into the war and an estimated 400,000 Kurds have been displaced in Northern Iraq. Angel Foundation will be going to the area next week to assess the crises and report to OCHA.

SUDAN REPORT

Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS, a group of humanitarian organizations operating in Sudan), has estimated that 30,000 people have been displaced because of insecurity. The WFP (World Food Programme) estimates that the food requirement will be 2,259 mt. 

This insecurity is a product of the GOS and LRA. LRA forces have massacred 450 people in 33 villages and butchered 60 civilians at a funeral after they were forced to cook and eat the carcasses of their relatives! 
While World Vision, Oxfam, and CARE have had to leave the area, many groups remaining in the area are at risk. Samaritan Purse Hospital in southern Sudan has been repeatedly bombed by Sudanese government forces.

NJ is an 11 year old girl who lives with her family in one of the camps designated for internally displaced persons on the outskirts of Khartoum.  Police officers picked her up and claimed to have mistook her for a vagrant. She was repeatedly raped before being released.  She was taken to a hospital where the rape was confirmed. To date, no trial has taken place. Sadly, she is one of many children that are subjected to such torture.

20 Feb 03: Angel Foundation holds a Consultative Status with the Economical and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSCO) and recommends the IDHA to all relief organizations, see: www.idha.ch/NGOS/ngos.html

17 Feb 03: All teams are back and doing well. AF applauds the relief groups that have helped us and helped the needy people of the region.  We have one question...Where are the news programs covering the atrocities that prevail in the region?

I have been told by the WFP that the AF team is in an area that makes communication difficult and that they are fine. We are still attempting to find out who is being held in Nasir.

WFP has released information that a team of Americans has been arrested by the GOS. The team was said to have been near the village of Nasir in the A'ALI'AN NIL region of Sudan. Any organizations with teams in this area are requested to contact Angel Foundation immediately.  Also, any organizations with information, please contact AF asap. We are currently working with other organization in the area, in order to determine who and why they would have been arrested.

he killing in the Sudan continues. Christians not willing to change to Islam are being killed daily. This includes women and children. Main stream media is paying little attention to the area, while thousands are killed. Prince Mikhail and Angel Foundation will be going to Southern Sudan in February 2003, in an effort to document/film events to draw attention to the plight of the people living in the area. Before anyone asks, we will attempt to prevent these events where possible.