Friday, November 6, 2009

MRC/ICRC Restoring Family Links Northern Zone (Perlis, Kedah & Penang)

Course: MRC/ICRC Restoring Family Links Northern Zone (Perlis, Kedah & Penang)
Date: 3rd Oct 2009 (Saturday)
Time: 8.30am - 6pm
Venue: Putra Brasmana Hotel, Kuala Perlis, Perlis


3 of our VAD20 members have attended this course, they are Muthu, Hadi and Ashraff. They have learnt a lot of things about RFL and mix friends from Kedah and Perlis.

When people flee armed conflicts, it is so easy for children to be lost in the crowd.....
In armed conflicts, family members go missing...
Some are detained...
To escape violence, families are displaced...
When a disaster strikes...
Lives are lost...
Families are displaced and torn apart...

These things happaned in the world. Therefore, this course prepare our members to help those who are needed. The objective of this course are:-
1) To restore and maintain contact bet
ween family members and to clarify the fate of persons reported missing.
2) To offer separeted family member
s telephone services and exchange of written messages, create websites adaoted to specific contexts, respond to individual tracing requests and reunite families.
3) To collect, manage and forward information on dead and missing
persons.

Ashraff and Hadi doing some hands on


Muthu and Chong having some hands on as well


Lecture from Ms. Muna Djuly




Lunch time =)