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C-BERSS EX-PRESS
December 2004
Issue 3, Vol 7
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All Newsletters : December 2004 : Events Have Overtaken Us
Events Have Overtaken Us
A message from C-BERS Chairperson Dr Maria Harries AM
Dear Readers of C-BERS EX-PRESS,
This newsletter went to print BEFORE we learnt of the devastation that has rocked South East Asia in the wake of the Boxing Day Tsunami.
In the light of these more recent events, the tone and content of my New Year’s message “A Good Cause for Celebration” seems somewhat less relevant now than it did when it was initially written.
I’m sure many of you will feel some empathy for the plight and future of the (possibly hundreds of thousands of) children who have been left without parents, without family and without a stable home to grow up in, following on from the enormity of this international disaster.
Perhaps we can all draw some hope (and perhaps there will indeed and eventually be “good cause for celebration” from the international response to the needs of these children) as a demonstration of just how much we have learnt of how best to respond to the more personal tragedies and hardships that have occurred in the past.
I’m sure you all join with me in sending your prayers and/or well wishes to those children and survivors whose lives have been upturned by the events of the past few weeks.
Dr Maria Harries (Chairperson), and all of us here at C-BERS Services
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