It is NOT Just Another Appeal

By the time you are reading this, you might have already received or will receive NAAMA’s appeal letter to raise funds for the “Emergency Medical Relief” to the Arab World.  This fund was initiated in response to the events in Tunisia and Egypt to quickly evolve to become widespread to include the whole region.

Of course, it is not unusual for NAAMA to call upon its members and friends to help in times of need.  But this time it is different.  The magnitude of needs in Libya, the intricacy of forecast in Syria, the inference of a resolution in Yemen or the lack of access in Bahrain adds a third dimension to any stand or effort taken by NAAMA.

NAAMA has always walked a fine line between being dragged into politics and maintaining our neutrality as a non political and non profit organization.  All statements issues in the past were carefully crafted to convey our concerns as medical professionals with a hint to our dismay and condemnation.  And many times neither stand was satisfactory to some of our members.  Many of you feel that words are not sufficient, or too direct.  But this is not what NAAMA is all about.

Regardless whether you are pro or against whatever is happening in our homeland today, and whether you call it a revolution or a conspiracy does not matter.  What matters is that your response to this appeal is a statement that humanity is at stake and whoever suffers from violence regardless of who is inflicting it deserves humane treatment and the right of dignified medical care.  In fact, this appeal helps us here as much as those overseas.  It gives a sense of activism to heal the helplessness despair that some of us are going through.  

A wise man once said “It is a thousand folds better to light a candle than to curse the darkness” by the same wisdom, it is more effective for NAAMA to find ways to help the victims than to condemn the slayer.

Let us all pray for peace.