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Hi Anne,
Actually believe it or not when the war erupted the UN moved the Roma to a camp which was besides the largest lead slag heap in Europe and the families were exposed as the children played on the heaps and the leads was high concentration and most children had no shoes plus they have it on their hands and then ingest as well.
Took us as a group 10years to campaign and get them re sited....unbelievable!
Thanks Dawn
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Hello Dawn
Re your final para re Roma children and lead poisoning. How interesting - I suspect that the children are more likely to be being poisoned as a result of ingesting the lead rather than as a result of skin absorption. They are likely to be drinking water from an aquifer which could be contaminated with Pb, eating food grown on contaminated land and eating/drinking animal products from animals which have also been reared on contaminated land. Do their homes have lead pipes too - if so and if they live in a soft water area they are likely to be drinking water which is also Pb contaminated.
Hard water offers some degree of protection as the hard water results in calcium deposits which coats the lumen of the pipes. Young children being raised in Bhopal are still suffering the after effects of the union carbide disaster of the late 1980's as they are eating food and imbibing animal products raised on contaminated land.
Anne
Anne Harriss
Course Director
London South Bank University
On 02/11/2012 14:23, "DAWN" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> As a slight odd post I thought I would tell you about work I do in
> Public health in Kosova. I have been involved with a charity called
> www.hopeandaiddirect.org.uk sicne 1999 and prior to that its sister
> charity Convoy of Hope since 1996.
>
> I drive a lorry from the UK approx every 2 years with humanitarian aid
> etc and deliver it straight into the hands of people in remote
> villages as well as towns. We also do school projects and hospital
> support. To give some idea the level of unemployment is 80% and no
> infastructure of benifits operates at a useful level. Most families we
> meet live on 1 euro a day ( thats a family of 4). Apart from Towns the
> rest rely on well water and 80% is faecally contaminated. Interesting
> for a place so close to us and next to holiday locations. The
> situation is worse than during the war. and all NGO's ( Non Government
> Organisations) have gone. We are the only one that remains and we go
> only 2 x a year. A bunch of people across the south of the UK who do
> this in our spare time totally unfunded or with any paid or employed
> people. Peopl hear nothing and think they are OK infact it is getting
> worse. Blindness is not considered a disablity so they have to find work and get not money. Even those who do only get approx 60 Euros per month for a family.
>
> I have just returned last week and I am due to go again at Easter and
> wondered if anyone would be interested in helping me. I was thinking
> either in donation of equipmet ie audiometers that don't require
> consumables or spirometers to set up a project with a hospital. They
> can't need consumables as they wont be able to get the consumables.
>
> I would welcome any fundraising however small or other support you
> wish to consider. The main priority is getting funds to get the lorry
> there and back as each lorry costs in hire, insurance, desiel, ferry
> crossing etc £4000. I can fill it but always need food ( not tins but
> dry food like oats,flour,rice,sugar,salt,dried soup etc)
>
> If you wish to hear more or be involved or help please contact me off line.
>
> Dawn
>
> PS It is very interesting from a OH point of view and I have learnt a
> lot about Public Health ( or rather the impacts with the lack of it).
> Some very interesting data on Roma children being poisoned as they
> lived on a lead slag heap and were absorbing lead through their skin
> and had levels of over 100 and were dieing! I hope you find it
> interesting on some level. Please check out the web site.
>
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