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ATFT Helps Flood Victims in Tabasco, Mexico |
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By
Ing. Alvaro Hernández Climatic changes are affecting many Countries, and some of these changes are causing a tragedy for many people, especially the poor and needy. Tabasco
is a rich state in natural resources; it has the largest rivers
in Mexico, beautiful large forest and rich oil fields. Its population
of about 2,200,000 people, is integrated with people from different People used to say: “one tragedy, does not come
alone”. Unfortunately this time, that was
right, in the neighboring state, the State of
Chiapas, the excessive rain, caused a big hill to
collapse and fall down in to the Grijalva river
that also feeds the Tabasco dams, clogging the flow of the river, and
disappearing on the fall. Small communities were covered with
thousands of tons of soil and rocks. A large
amount of work has to be done to move millions of cubic meters of rock and
soil to allow the water flow again on the way to
the sea. This second tragedy caused people to be
afraid and
The magnitude of this tragedy has required that National and International people and institutions bring help to Tabasco and Chiapas. Some of the affected people are already receiving assistance, however, as the access to small communities is still affected, help has not been able to reach them. As the water receded, and health problems arose, a big campaign against infections was implemented. Hepatitis, Dengue Fever, Malaria, Tetanus, Flu, stomach sickness and others are a real danger (again the problem is to reach the small populations in areas of difficult access). In the city of Villahermosa, after people were allowed to leave
the shelters, many of them, found A new big and collective issue is showing up now, the people need psychological help to relieve their traumas, fears and panic. REQUEST FOR PSYCHOLOGICAL HELP Soon requests for psychological help began arriving at the ATFT
Foundation. Jenny Edwards, Shortly thereafter, the ATFT Foundation
received a formal invitation from Caritas of
Tabasco, to come and help. The original idea
was to prepare a team to be able to go to Tabasco A local TFT Dx trained practioner Raquel Lobo contacted by Maria
Eulalia Perez Porrua offered to A TEAM WAS FORMED A team was formed with two engineers and therapists (TFT Dx trained) from
Mexico City: Victor Manuel Eguiluz and myself,
Alvaro Hernandez, and a group of local people from
Tabasco: Raquel Lobo TFT Dx, Lia Cervantes, Lupita
Canto TFT Dx, Lolita Camacho TFT Dx, Cecilia Garcia TFT Dx, Ofelia Hinojosa
TFT Dx, Ma Reyna Suarez, Marilin Diaz, Rosita
Romellon and 83
The first step after our arrival was to train the volunteers and actualize the trained ones. With the help of Victor Manuel Eguiluz and the local TFT trained people I gave an official TFT Algorithm Level course to the 83 volunteers. Unfortunately Raquel Lobo had return to Monterrey because her father went to the hospital. Before leaving, she had to move all the furniture and accessories from the first floor to the second floor of her house to be prepared in case a new flooding happens (The red alarm is on ). The local support to our team was then supplied by Lia Cervantes. THE ALGORITHM LEVEL TRAINING IN TABASCO The course was given in a local church
auditorium (Parroquia Del Espiritu Santo) kindly provided by The manuals, certificates and material in Spanish, financed by the
ATFT Foundation, were prepared The next day when she arrived to the training she was crying and asking for help. This tragedy gave me the opportunity to treat her with TFT in front of the group and bring her SUD from 10 to 1, but a new aspect from this trauma arrived, the fear that her daughters would be affected because her pictures and address were in her stolen hand bag. The problem this time required more than algorithms, I treated her in private using Diagnostic Level TFT, after correcting reversals, treating her for toxins and using collarbone breathing her SUD went from 10 to 1. The training was a success, and the people were
very happy, for the opportunity to learn TFT, the comments and evaluation
were excellent and they were ready to start
helping friends, families, At the end of the training, Lia Cervantes organized small groups of
people living near by in order to start providing help to the
affected ones. One of the trainees, a
physician, Dr Raymundo Cadena,
HELPING TRAUMATIZED PEOPLE The next activity was to help the traumatized people in the poor
communities; the help was provided in local churches. This activity
was planned and coordinated by Raquel Lobo and Lia Cervantes and in each
community a responsible contact person was named.
Lia Cervantes and Sister Martina, were in charge of the first one
“Comunidad Bosques de Saloya”. We gave group help to more than
60 people and then individual help to the
special cases or to the ones that required it because their SUD
did not come down. After the help was provided, a sandwich was offered to everybody. Maria Reyna Suarez was in charge of the second community, but in the church another activity was help that arrived (food and water) we could not work at that time. In the same place where the training was given, help was offered to affected people, and a small group came and were successfully helped. Finally Marilin Diaz and Rosita Rosellon were in
charge of one of the more affected areas, MANGA III in the Santa Teresita
church and MANGA II in the Corpus Christy church in both cases we had many
people that with the help of the new TFT algorithm trainees we were able to
provide relief. Special attention was given to the children. (See
photos) In the Santa Teresita Church the priest suspended his mass to allow
us to keep working, the people were so happy with the TFT that they give us
a big applause before leaving 2 hours later than the time projected.
This was one of the most rewarding experiences. A lot more work still needs to be done. We have not been to the shelters, where thousands of people are. New teams need to be sent to coordinate the help of the new trained volunteers and to be able to reach more traumatized people. It was a pleasure for me to be part of the organization and the first team of the ATFT Foundation Trauma Relief Committee sent to Tabasco. If you wish to help with this relief effort contact:
Joanne Callahan, joanne@TFTRX.com or
Suzanne |
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