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| Description | Scrapbook regarding an appeal run by Amelia Fysh to help the victims of the earthquake at Spitak, Armenia on 7 December 1988. The appeal ran from May-December 1989 and sought to raise money to provide clothes, shoes, toys and other necessities. It began after Amelia wrote a letter to 'The Friend', a Quaker publication, having attended a seminar held at the Tavistock Clinic to discuss the work of rehabilitation in Armenia. In December 1989 Amelia travelled to the country to deliver the items and visit children in schools and hospitals.
Includes:
Background information regarding Armenia
Photographs of the items sent to Armenia
Letter from Anahid Azarian Director of the Children Centre, Kirovakan, thanking Amelia Fysh for the gifts
Photographs from Amelia's visit to Armenia including children at Leninakan School, the building of a new school at Leninakan completed by British builders, visits to hospitals, Spitak the epicentre of the earthquake, including reconstruction projects, Leninakan, Vladimir and Suzdal
Issue of the Observer Magazine commemorating the earthquake, 5 November 1989
Photographs of artwork completed by children at the Children Centre immediately before, immediately after and one year after the earthquake
Issue of 'The Friend' including the article 'Quaking for Armenia' by Amelia Fysh regarding her visit to the country
Paintings completed by children
Letters from individuals Amelia met on her visit to the country |