Eye witness to disaster pleads for help from Bo'ness community
A BO'NESS schoolgirl is appealing for help for the thousands of orphans and homeless people hit by the devastating floods in India, having seen their plight first hand.
Zoe Sayers (16) is now back home in Bonhard Way after going on a summer mountaineering and scientific research expedition to Ladakh, north of the Himalayas, in the Jammu and Kashmir region.
When her trip was cut short after she was struck by HACE – high altitude cerebral edema, a potentially fatal form of acute mountain sickness, where the brain swells – Zoe's Indian hospital stay and repatriation made her an eye-witness to the unfolding disaster.
Now she's pleading for Bo'ness people to fundraise for one of the lesser-known areas which was also affected. Many reports and appeals have focussed on the situation in neighbouring Pakistan but Zoe knows the clock is ticking in India for the aid effort, with winter fast approaching, when up to 30ft of snow can fall.
For the full story see this week's Journal and Gazette, on sale on Friday, August 27.
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Wednesday 08 February 2012
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