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The Nesin Foundation to their Friends:
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Credit card donations over the internet: https://secure.cs.bilgi.edu.tr/nesinvakfi/bagis.php |
Dear Friends,
We will not give in to pessimism.
Life is a struggle. We will accept this flood disaster as a part of that struggle, and with love and spirit work to to get back to the old days. We will make a better Foundation than the old one.
We are told that tomorrow there will be an even worse flood, if such a thing is possible!
We are preparing for the new flood as best we can.
We have sent the smaller children with their house-mothers to our houses in Istanbul. Only those youngsters capable of work remain at the Foundation.
Let me try to explain the scope of this disaster. It needs to be seen to be understood.
If I were to say that we now have a Foundation made of mud it would not be an exaggeration.
The basement was completely flooded and the water in the ground floor was 1.5 meters deep. Until yesterday the water in the garden was 2 meters deep. Now the water has gone, but we are knee deep in slime. You can't pull your foot out of the slime without leaving your boots behind. The debris brought by the flood has tangled between the fruit trees, making an enormous dam, and the trees are bending under the strain. There is nothing left of our beautiful green garden that all the children together spent so much effort creating. The hectares of fields we planted to provide feed for our animals are now a swamp.
We don't even know what has happened to out greenhouses.
The horses on our neighbour's farm have all drowned. They were wonderful animals. When they all galloped together the very ground would shake. Our children would climb the fence to offer them grass from our garden. They never tired of the excitement of seeing those rows of enormous teeth taking what they offered with their tiny hands. Those horses were an income to someone else, but for us they were a source of joy. Now our darling horses are gone.
Out theatre is unrecognisable. We can't even go in it right now.
The kitchen is unusable. Washing machines, dishwashers, driers, refrigerators, ovens, cool store, central heating boiler. Whatever are regarded as the implements of civilisation have gone.
Our stock of meat is destroyed. Before it starts to pose a health hazard we need to bury it. But where? Everywhere is only slime.
Water, electricity, telephone, internet are all, of course, cut off.
For a long time we could not reach my house at Dereboyu. The most important notes of Aziz Nesin were there. The flood threw everything, from tree trunks to mobile homes, and flung it with all its force. Fortunately the house did not collapse, and the notes were safe. The word miracle comes to mind.
I don't even mention the now unusable chairs and sofas, beds and bed linen or our clothing store that was completely submerged.
Our "art house" was nearly finished. Now it is destroyed and we will have to start again.
Thousands of liras worth of stock of Aziz Nesin's books has been destroyed. We had succeeded in binding most of Aziz Nesin's newspaper collection. But those we had not got round to, for lack of money (or time), are now pulp. I saw a collection of the newspaper "Politika " for 1976. That hurt me inside.
All our children and our graduates have come to the Foundation to help clear up. To understand the dimensions of this disaster you need to experience it, to see it with your own eyes.
We have two consolations:
1) None of us was hurt.
2) Aziz Nesin's archive was rescued. It was the first thing our children thought of. Over three thousand folders. With unbelievable speed and wonderful co-operation, they leapt out of their beds in the middle of the night and got all of the archive up to the second floor before the water came in. Some of our children may be naughty, some may be disobedient, but they all knew that the archive of Grandad Nesin, a man they never saw, was the first thing to be saved. This is what education should be.
We will not abandon our optimism. We have vowed to continue to go forward. On with the struggle!
Dear Friends,
The Nesin Foundation buildings needed strengthening against earthquake. The flood has weakened the foundations even further. It will cost 350,000-400,000TL to strengthen the foundations (= $240,000-$280,000, = £150,000-£170,000). Without the cost of our labour, we estimate the cost of materials to repair damage from the flood at around 250,000TL (= $170,000 = £100,000). Of course these amounts of money are completely beyond our reach.
We are appealing to you, who have always stood by us in our times of difficulty with the large or small contributions that you were able to make.
Thank you all very much!
Our faith in you and in the future is unbounded.
With love and respect from all of us.
Ali Nesin
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*TL Accounts:* İş Bankası, Parmakkapı Şubesi, Şube kodu 1042 Hesap no. 0714327
*Ziraat* Bankası, Çatalca Şubesi, Şube kodu *130, *Hesap no.* 952 22 32 - 5001*
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