{"id":3778,"date":"2021-07-26T14:25:35","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T14:25:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mediateka.online\/learnrussian\/when-disaster-strikes-you-have-to-help-the-volunteers-in-a-global-crisis.html"},"modified":"2021-07-26T14:25:35","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T14:25:35","slug":"when-disaster-strikes-you-have-to-help-the-volunteers-in-a-global-crisis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mediateka.online\/learnrussian\/when-disaster-strikes-you-have-to-help-the-volunteers-in-a-global-crisis.html","title":{"rendered":"\u2018When disaster strikes, you have to help\u2019: the volunteers in a global crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From Syrians helping in Germany\u2019s floods to Russian CrossFitters fighting fires, ordinary people helping to tackle the climate crisis<\/p>\n<figure id=\"38c0ef45-b351-4245-b507-2740e91e1ef1\" class=\"dcr-13udsys\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6cac1e24ea592803061c1295f62bb87043dcf17c\/0_550_8256_4954\/master\/8256.jpg?width=445&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=71bef619413be96e16c66ff9582b29ac\" alt=\"Volunteers and residents clear up in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler\" height=\"84\" width=\"140\" class=\"dcr-1989ovb lazyload\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Volunteers and residents clear up in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/6cac1e24ea592803061c1295f62bb87043dcf17c\/0_550_8256_4954\/master\/8256.jpg?width=445&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=71bef619413be96e16c66ff9582b29ac\" height=\"84\" width=\"140\" class=\"dcr-1989ovb\"><\/noscript> Volunteers and residents clear up following the severe flooding in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany. Photograph: Thomas Lohnes\/Getty ImagesVolunteers and residents clear up following the severe flooding in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany. Photograph: Thomas Lohnes\/Getty Images<\/figure>\n<p>, ,  and <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"\">Anas Alakkad and Faris Allahham, Germany<\/h2>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">When Anas Alakkad, a Saarland-based translator and paramedic from Damascus, saw pictures of the flooded German towns on his Facebook feed on Sunday night, he fired off messages to Syrian friends around Germany.<\/p>\n<p id=\"sign-in-gate\">\n<figure id=\"114211bc-f5fa-4ecb-8376-63ec011ca9a8\" class=\"dcr-10khgmf\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP\/\/\/yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7\" data-src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/321c2651157a7467cb1c922ab01cd593bcebcaa6\/0_0_1600_1202\/master\/1600.jpg?width=445&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=ff3f7c8ce1b5798911f8cba604c04446\" alt=\"Anas Alakkad and Faris Allahham\" height=\"1202\" width=\"1600\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-1989ovb lazyload\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Anas Alakkad and Faris Allahham\" src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/321c2651157a7467cb1c922ab01cd593bcebcaa6\/0_0_1600_1202\/master\/1600.jpg?width=445&amp;quality=45&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;dpr=2&amp;s=ff3f7c8ce1b5798911f8cba604c04446\" height=\"1202\" width=\"1600\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"dcr-1989ovb\"><\/noscript>Anas Alakkad (left) and Faris Allahham, two German-based Syrians volunteering to clear up wreckage from the floods in Sinzig, western Germany.<\/figure>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">\u201cThere was a debate whether we should somehow try to help,\u201d said the 28-year-old, who arrived in Germany as a refugee six years ago. \u201cThe answer was pretty obvious to me: we had to.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">Alakkad and his best friend, Faris Allahham, a graphic designer, started by translating messages from German volunteering organisations into Arabic. By Monday, they decided to head out to the afflicted area themselves, a two-and-a-half-hour drive from their homes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">\u201cThe destruction was so emotionally shocking,\u201d he recalled. \u201cNo matter what you\u2019ve seen on television, it\u2019s more devastating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">He and six other Syrians spent the whole of Tuesday clearing debris from a house in the small town of Sinzig, south of Bonn, where at least 12 people died in flash floods last Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">\u201cEverything was caked in mud and heavy \u2013 we needed to form human chains to lug it out of the basement and on to the street, where it could get picked up by trucks.\u201d The floods had swept entire trees into the building\u2019s garden, and washed piles of bottles into the front room.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">Throughout the day, Alakkad and friends drummed up more interest via their \u201cSyrian Volunteers in Germany\u201d Facebook group. On Wednesday, the number of Syrian volunteers arriving in the area had doubled.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">\u201cThe biggest challenge is finding places for people to stay the night,\u201d he said. \u201cIf we can get enough beds, we may be able to get hundreds of volunteers to come and help.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">\u201cWe\u2019ve all travelled from Syria to Germany, mostly on foot. Our threshold for pain and stress is pretty high. Some Syrians have driven to western Germany from Berlin and slept in their cars overnight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">\u201cWhen disaster strikes, you have to help each other. We all know how important that is.\u201d <\/p>\n<h2 class=\"\">Ms Feng, 53, China<\/h2>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">When Ms Feng, a former university staff, saw the catastrophic flood waters hit Zhengzhou last week, she was quick to volunteer to help. \u201cI am a civil volunteer,\u201d she said. \u201cUnder such circumstances, I don\u2019t think too much, I only try to do what I can. Zhengzhou is the city I grow up in, and this university is where I had a lot of growth, there is no reason why I don\u2019t help out. A good name is not what I am looking for, I think being down to earth and [to] do the work is most essential.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">She believes much more can be done to prepare for such events as the climate crisis worsens. \u201cThere is not enough preparation to deal with extreme weather. The city regulation system is very insensitive to such disaster. I only got an alarm the second day after the city is flooded from the government. In my school, there is not even any sandbags for flood prevention, and there was no alarm before the floods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">\u201cI think safety education is very crucial \u2013 they should be taught in schools throughout different stages of education. Our children lack such education, and this is quite frightening. Now the situation is much better with professional rescue teams\u2019 help, but I still think the Chinese government can do better at flood prevention.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">She points out that her city is well prepared for fire, with rehearsals every year, but that there is no comprehensive prevention system for floods. <\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">Global warming itself is too detached from her life to worry about. \u201cI focus on what\u2019s in front of me,\u201d she says, but she is reeling from the scale of the disaster. \u201cI am shocked. I can hardly breathe.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">Volunteering has made her feel useful. \u201cI feel happy. Helping others, being needed by others give me a special kind of happiness. Those in need makes me feel my value. In the past, when others say so, I don\u2019t quite understand them. But the past two days made me understand such happiness. I also feel proud from inside; I am deeply satisfied that I have tried my best to contribute to this city I live and grow up in.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"\">Grigory Mochkin, Russia<\/h2>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">When a devastating \u201cairpocalypse\u201d descended on Yakutsk, the capital of the Yakutia region in north-eastern Siberia, a brawny 32-year-old CrossFit trainer sprang into action.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">Grigory Mochkin, an entrepreneur and athlete, said he signed up as one of hundreds of volunteers to fight the fires because he was \u201cmoved by the outrage on social networks and the fact that [the fires] have touched us so closely, the place where we live\u201d.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">Recording a video during a recent trip, he called on CrossFitters around the world to send support to help the volunteer brigades fighting the unprecedented fires in Yakutia. \u201cCrossFit strong,\u201d he declared, putting a fist in the air.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">But he also spoke about a battle against the fires that he fears will affect the lives of the next generation, including his daughter, who was born this year. \u201cShe\u2019s my first child,\u201d he said in an interview. \u201cAnd I feel responsibility to ensure that my child doesn\u2019t breathe this air, the same things that we\u2019re breathing in now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">Yakutia is a unique and beautiful region, a place where winters are among the coldest on Earth, with temperatures falling below -50C. But the summers have increasingly become burdened by the worsening fires.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">\u201cFrom my social circle, I\u2019d say 50% have already seriously thought about moving away or at least leaving [Yakutia] during the period of the year when there are fires and going to a warm country during the really cold winter season,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">He said that he saw the cause behind the fires as \u201c95% nature\u201d, but that local mismanagement had also allowed them to grow out of control. \u201cFires are nature \u2013 it\u2019s hard to fight against nature,\u201d he said. \u201cLike a child develops over nine months in the womb, that\u2019s the same with putting out fires \u2013 you can\u2019t just jump in there and put them out. So it takes a lot of time and that\u2019s why there\u2019s a lot of outrage.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">Outfitted with shovels and water packs, Mochkin and other volunteers, including other CrossFitters, cover dozens of miles to help build firebreaks and controlled burns that curtail the wildfires\u2019 spread.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">\u201cIt\u2019s hard when the smoke blows in our direction,\u201d he said. \u201cBut in general, for us athletes, it\u2019s easier, it\u2019s normal for us. You need to walk a long way carrying a heavy load on your back.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"\">Beau Gulledge, 21, and Annaet Juarez, 25, US<\/h2>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">Young women serving on the California Conservation Corps\u2019 wildland fire crews \u2013 a programme that provides training to jumpstart a firefighting career and experience working alongside Cal Fire, US Forest Service, and the Bureau of Land Management teams battling the biggest blazes \u2013 say the work is exhausting but rewarding.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">Beau Gulledge, a 21-year-old California native who is in her second year in the programme, says when she started, as the only woman who made it on to a crew after training, she felt like a fish out of water.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">That feeling subsided as soon as she was sent out to tackle her first real fire in July 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">\u201cIt was three in the morning when we got the call,\u201d she says, recounting that she wondered if it was really happening. \u201cI was going over in my head about the food I had been eating over the last month. Had I pushed myself enough physically? Am I ready for this?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">With the smoke stinging her eyes, she spent 12 hours straight helping to construct a \u2018fireline\u2019 \u2013 suppressing the forward movement of the flames. By the time the fire was put out, her perspective had changed. \u201cI was physically exhausted, but I was so happy my body could push through and do anything,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">Annaet Juarez, 25, says the camaraderie has made her work fighting fires more meaningful. During training, which includes a gruelling \u201cpack test\u201d where recruits have to carry 45lb packs across 3 miles in under 45 minutes, she collapsed under the weight and the pressure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">\u201cIt was one of the most physically demanding things I have ever had to do,\u201d she says. \u201cI didn\u2019t think I was going to be able to make it, but my crew supported me, and that\u2019s what got me to finish.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-s23rjr\">She is now part of an all-female crew and even though she says fighting fires is harder than she imagined, her team makes the work easier to get through. \u201cWhen they say the fire is hot, it\u2019s <em>hot<\/em>. Especially when you are standing 3ft away from it and you have to be moving, working, cutting line,\u201d she says. \u201cIt is way tougher than I thought \u2013 but it makes me stronger and now I know I am capable of much more.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--noindex--><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2021\/jul\/26\/when-disaster-strikes-you-have-to-help-the-volunteers-in-a-global-crisis\">Source<\/a><!--\/noindex--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Syrians helping in Germany\u2019s floods to Russian CrossFitters fighting fires, ordinary people helping to tackle the climate crisis Volunteers and residents clear up following the severe flooding in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany. Photograph: Thomas Lohnes\/Getty ImagesVolunteers and residents clear up following the severe flooding in Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler, Germany. 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