Oakville Newspapers

Oakville Beaver, 13 Jul 1994, p. 8

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I felt as a relief worker and as a perâ€" son, I have to know these people. I don‘t just want to collect money. There‘s more to it than just feeding people (although) at the beginning I While she sat among them, trucks with other foreign observers would drive through the camps and leave behind nothing but a trail of dust, having justified where their aid was going. Relief worker feels efforts are making a differenc (Continued from page 1) THE OAKVILLE BEAVER thought we were just feeding corpses. It‘s very important to make contact." And in recounting the past 24 months, Bhabha said, without a trace of egotism, she is making a difference. "My husband said to me, ‘Are you going to change the world?‘ And I said why not, I‘ve never tried it before," she smiled, a pleasant earthy smile that no doubt would spread warmth and reassurance when needed. Over the past two years, she has made dozens of contacts here and abroad, which not only ease her efforts in arranging doctors‘ visits and her own trips to the former Yugoslovia, but make her life fuller. She still corresponds with a young Bosnian soldier who "made it out" Money collected is funnelled not only into supplies, but into an eduâ€" cation fund to encourage and aid young Bosnian students in continuâ€" ing their university elsewhere in Europe. "Who is going to take over? Lawyers, doctors, are going to be needed for the reâ€"construction.," said Bhabha. She has spoken to young students who are worried they will not have the opportunity to return to their studies and after two years of war, if they even could mentally. Money is also directed to those women of Bosnia who have been raped, to pay for counselling and is now living in Norway. She has made phone calls, sent faxes, spoken at universities across southern Ontario, sat on panels and written speeches. "It (rape) is a deliberate wea of war. They are getting at the r through the women," said Bhat "Women represent the country. women are becoming soiled." and psychiatric help. Donated supplies are housed warehouse and shipped regularl the former Yugoslovia. The hi success of the Women to Won project, launched by a Toronto m‘ faith coalition of which Bhabha i member, continues with people c tinually dropping off bags of ite such as feminine hygiene produ soap, toothpaste, diapers, dia rash cream, to her home orâ€" offices of the BCRA. "People are still being shot at. central Bosnia there is very Bs food. But I found with the people Sarajevo, the morale was very hi They were under constant attacki two years and had made it thro They felt invincible. They kn« there will always be a place on t! earth for Bosnia and there w always be Bosnians." k qi The war brought forth a "kind nationalism" among the people vd before had "all been Yugoslav1an she said. f Upon her return, Bhahba fout solace in her garden. On previoi visits she would have liked to st: longer; this time was particular emotionally and physically drainit and she was glad to be home. And still Bhabha‘s job is done. Even though Bosnia is always the headline story in news anymore, food, medicine supplies are still desperately nee Bhabha, however, noticed a di ence in the people this time. There are faces she can‘t forgj children and men lying in hospi the smell and taste of air laden wi dust that she can‘t wipe out. Planli flying overhead remind her of t constant bombing. , Bhabha, whose work continu as she flies to Edmonton this wee end to speak before the Islami Associaton of that city, said s welcomes donations (849â€"8083) an her message is simply that we ar all human beings and "we have t help each other." f "This is nothing I had planned. just let myself go with the tide. couldn‘t stop myself." "Bosnia is still there and th still need our help." "It was emotionally very hard said Bhabha who discovered up her return to Bosnia the death, several people whom she had met. "Death becomes such a mund thing," she said sadly. Amazing things happen in this exhibit. Yellow beer appears out of thin air. A bird magically appears in a previâ€" ously empty cage. Distinct picâ€" tures emerge from a mass of dots. Still images begin to move. An index finger momenâ€" tarily disappears, and a laughâ€" ing mask grins backwards. It all depends, of course, on how one looks at things. 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