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Enjoy a SCORP summer with GoSCORP!
Are you still making summer plans? Would you like to spend your summer or free time in a responsible and educational manner? Would you like to meet SCORPions from all over the world while contributing to the local community and making a true impact? Then this is your chance! We hereby open the last opportunity to apply for GoSCORP Jordan and Rwanda!
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GoSCORP Jordan
When: 6 Aug. - 2 Sep. 2019
Where: Amman, Jordan
Theme:
Refugees’ Health and Rights & Humanitarian Assistance
Fee: 430 Euros
Deadline: 17th of July
Registration form: here
(note that you also need to submit an application form, signed and stamped by your NMO president or NORP)
Facebook: here
Contact: rababah.ahmad.1999@gmail.com
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GoSCORP Rwanda
When: 7 - 21 October 2019
Where: Kigali, Rwanda
Theme:
Generation for Peace: Fighting Against Genocide Ideology
Fee: 380 Euros
Deadline: 29th of July
Registration form: here
(note that you also need to submit an application form, signed and stamped by your NMO president or NORP)
Facebook: here
Contact:
goscorprwanda@gmail.com
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ITDM Berlin 2019
By Maria Krayem, bvmd-Germany
Around midday on the 30th of May of this year the International Training for Disaster Medicine in Berlin, Germany took off with a comprehensive introduction to Disaster Medicine followed by a detailed session on healthcare in disasters. The day ended with a very honest, eye-opening account on working in disaster situations with MSF by one of their experienced field doctors. On the second day the participants started the day off right with an interactive workshop on Human Rights and the International Humanitarian Law, followed by diverse sessions that expanded upon the subjects of Triage, Pre-Hospital and Hospital Management as well as Disaster Risk Reduction. The Highlight of the third day was the life-like simulation that the participants had to go through and apply what they learned in the past two days to their way of handling the situation. Other topics addressed during this ITDM were Mental Health and International coordination and cluster system.
The ITDM ended on the fourth day, the 2nd of June, with a talk on the Prevention of sexual exploitation and abuse within the humanitarian settings by an external guest speaker followed by a debrief and an evaluation of the last four days.
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Lost for good!
By Ahmed Zayed, IFMSA-Egypt
Imagine a child separated from their family, lost in a crowd; countless scenarios of what harm might reach them should be flooding your mind. Now imagine a child separated from their family on the borders of a foreign country, alone on unfamiliar land, surrounded by unfamiliar faces who speak a different language; seeking refuge. Sounds scary enough? "Unaccompanied child refugees" is what they are called.
Being a part of the World Refugee Day 2019 SWG gave me the chance to read further into this serious issue, one that doesn't have enough exposure to the eye of the public. Children are a vulnerable group by nature; they need support from their adult family members to survive their childhood; whether financial as they can't provide for themselves, or emotional for normal development. Now imagine the additional hardships an unaccompanied child refugee faces; getting to a safe country unharmed; looking for food and shelter, finding safe roads, working on legal documents for themselves because they have no legal guardian.. I will leave the rest for your imagination.
The first child is lost and found, but the second one maybe lost for good ...
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The Dead Survivor
By Sahiba Maniar, MSAI-India
A little child of four
Has no food in his plate
Is this the horrific future
Our society hopes to create?
He has left his home behind
Half naked, lonely on the street
His family was battered to death,
Sigh, humanity saw defeat.
He’s trying to make a living
Which seems worse than the previous one
In a country far away,
More comforted by the scorching sun.
Finds solace in the stars at night,
Haunted by bloody wars and painful tears
Reminiscing his beautiful homeland,
He’ll never visit for years.
Sometimes life equates death, and death is the only hope to a better life. When survival is cursed and the coffin seems comfortable, the world shudders in blankets of unrest. 70.8 million displaced people. 25.9 million refugees, 52% of which are children. 9 out of 10 child refugees in Europe are unaccompanied. The blackest of the black times are here. Inadequate food and water, no access to healthcare, unhygienic living conditions, no protection, lacking awareness towards education, refugees live a tormenting life in inhabitable refugee camps.
A child does not deserve to watch people drown and blood flow into rivers. A child does not deserve to walk endlessly in the day and get abused at night. They deserve a new life. They deserve a helping hand. We owe it to them. It is extremely essential to nurture a child despite the harsh environment they are living in. Psychosocial therapy should be prioritized. The child should be encouraged to enroll in local schools and continue their education. They must have access to health facilities.
Homeless, hopeless, hapless. Such is the life of refugees. No land to call their own. The sky is all they own. Prayers are all they have. Today is all about nothing. A tomorrow is what they fear. Another day, another year, another fight, another tear.
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Equality in the land of the Pharaohs
By Ahmed M. Saleh, IFMSA-Egypt
Women are equal, not a sequel, to men; a fact was known before the dawn of history in Egypt. But like everything in life, with time the weathercock changes. In the past years, the rates of gender-based inequalities, discrimination, and violence were rising vigorously; so we the SCORPharaohs, heirs to the ancient pharaohs and serene people of SCORP, took a step forward to revive our past. We reformed our SDGs project to work permanently on the 5th SDG, Gender Equality. The project is designed to raise awareness of medical students about gender equality and the importance of women empowerment to achieve that goal. In the upcoming months, we will actively participate in women empowerment through our capacity building program that shall include not only IFMSA-Egypt members, nor medical students, but hopefully all undergraduate students in Egypt. For we believe in equality, SCORPharaohs shall stand Hand in Hand to achieve it.
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A Bad Dream!
By Enas Osama, MedSIN-Sudan
Yesterday I had a bad dream. It was about a monster. A villain that hunted people's happiness and joy, took their lives, hope and dreams away. But then a ruckus came from outside that made me jump awake, followed by screams! Horrible awful screams of those who just wanted peace! they died telling their last words " Freedom , peace and justice " that's when I realized that it's not a bad dream, it was worse, I just couldn't accept the reality, the bloody reality, this isn't something I could just wake up from.
It all started in the last day of Ramadan , there was a nice smell of cookies filling the air, kids were dancing wearing their new clothes, singing and laughing. They were so happy, everyone was so happy; tomorrow is Eid and the preparations started already. Soon enough the screams of joy turned into a curdling screams of pain, all you could see is blood and all you can hear is the voices of bullets.
Everyone was wearing a new piece of cloth, that is for sure! It was that familiar, scary, dull, white but bloody sheet of cloth. You are now just another number in the long list, and if you're lucky enough your brothers will be able to bury you!
But for us, you are heroes, each one of you! You who refused to stay silent, who fought the monster and stood for our rights, our simplest rights that we hoped to have. You died for us and for this land. I promise, we won't forget you, we will never stop fighting till we take back our rights, our dignity, hopes and lives. Until we take back our freedom, peace and justice. Maybe then we can all rest in peace and surely meet in heaven and celebrate our Eid .
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No child deserves!
By Reham Mokhtar, IFMSA-Egypt
I used to believe that a child is always a spoiled little person, living so merely. Out of the blue, all my standards fell apart, when I saw my uncle pulling off the nails of his child, as punishment for putting Henna. Suddenly, I felt older, but couldn’t do anything about it. I grew up realizing the bitter truth; children are abused and put to labor and even killed, all around the world, for the most stupid reasons. Many children go through all this and are not able to express their feelings about it. I knew I should do something about it. So, I started with my own younger siblings. I do my best to stand up against any domestic violence against children. I try to talk to parents whenever I notice them suppressing their children. I try to help these children because no child deserves to live in fear. God created them peacefully, and they should live so, peacefully.
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The Green Trace
By Yomna Kadry, IFMSA-Egypt
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power, the world will know peace.”
- Jimi Hendrix.
I have always sought to be as a butterfly, in its effect, and bring peace to the world. Do you see this as an exaggeration? Being SCORPion makes you a beacon of this dream; to be the change you want to see. In your life, you will find war and peace. The harder you try to end conflicts, you will just be reducing them, as it is all about determinism. My graduation session, as a Human Rights Trainer, was about this dilemma. I found this as a suitable start for my desired effect and dream. I knew that inner peace is the first step towards world peace, so, I choose awareness to start my path. Spreading peace in the air, by wings of love, is the ultimate need of our world.
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