Flood 強化するs Libya's 国家の fabric, volunteers say

The apprentice dressmakers in Tripoli put their training on hold to help distressed survivors of the flash flood in Libya's east

The 見習い工 dressmakers in Tripoli put their training on 持つ/拘留する to help 苦しめるd 生存者s of the flash flood in Libya's east

About a dozen women hunch over sewing machines in Libya's 資本/首都, 緊急に making 着せる/賦与するs for the living, and shrouds for the dead, two weeks after a 抱擁する flood 荒廃させるd the eastern city of Derna.

In the war-乱打するd north African country that has long been divided between two 競争相手 政府s, the 悲劇 that killed thousands has 誘発するd a 全国的な sense of 団結.

"Our centre was already helping 貧困の families, so you can imagine our mobilisation when it 伴う/関わるs a 災害 of this magnitude," said Mohamed Kamour, the director of the centre that trains women to become dressmakers.

The International Organization for Migration said more than 43,000 people have been uprooted from the disaster zone

The International Organization for 移住 said more than 43,000 people have been uprooted from the 災害 zone

Since the flood struck on September 10, the 見習い工s have worked at 十分な 速度(を上げる), cutting and sewing fabric for the 貧困の in Derna, a city more than 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) to the east.

All normal courses have been 一時停止するd for the 援助(する) 成果/努力, said Kamour, whose workshop usually helps 未亡人s and 離婚d women 伸び(る) 財政上の independence.

"That is the 優先," he said. "We interrupted all types of training."

The workshop has already sent 1,300 school uniforms, 850 abayas and 650 shrouds to cover 死体s to Derna, and a second 出荷/船積み is 存在 用意が出来ている.

The workshop has already sent hundreds of abayas and other items to the stricken city of Derna

The workshop has already sent hundreds of abayas and other items to the stricken city of Derna

Derna had a 全住民 of about 100,000 before the flash flood broke through two ageing dams after a ハリケーン-strength 嵐/襲撃する 攻撃するd the area.

The 公式の/役人 death (死傷者)数 passed 3,800 on Saturday.

The flood, which 証言,証人/目撃するs に例えるd to a 津波, may have left 10,000 or more people 行方不明の, international 援助(する) groups said.

Many were swept out to sea, from where 団体/死体s are still washing 岸に. Others are thought to be buried beneath the mud and 破片 that carpets entire neighbourhoods of Derna.

- Libya '部隊s us' -

Since a 2011 北大西洋条約機構-支援するd 反乱 倒れるd longtime 独裁者 Moamer Kadhafi, Libya has seen more than a 10年間 of stop-start 衝突.

Libya: destruction in Derna

Libya: 破壊 in Derna

It is now divided between an 国祭的な-recognised 行政 in Tripoli in the west and another in the east, whose 軍隊s 開始する,打ち上げるd a faile d 強襲,強姦 on the 資本/首都 which ended in a 2020 停戦.

にもかかわらず Libya's political 分裂(する), Kamour said he received the requests of stricken 居住(者)s from charities based in the east, and has stepped up 生産/産物 in 返答.

The women stand over a large (米)棚上げする/(英)提議する (人が)群がるd with the day's 生産(高), which they sort and 倍の: grey and green abayas, a 伝統的な 十分な-length 式服; white 医療の smocks; shrouds for the 団体/死体s.

Karima Wanis, 39, the centre's trainer, said she feels as if she lost members of her own family.

While sewing machines hummed in the background, she said that it is "normal to come to the 援助(する) of our Derna brothers".

"We are part of the same family" Wanis said. "West or East. 最終的に, it's Libya that 部隊s us."

- Volunteer 成果/努力 -

After the flood, tribally and politically divided Libya has seen nationwide solidarity -- including from restaurateurs who have organised meals for the displaced

After the flood, tribally and 政治上 divided Libya has seen 全国的な 団結 -- 含むing from restaurateurs who have orga nised meals for the 追い出すd

Yann Fridez, 長,率いる of the Libya 代表 of the International 委員会 of the Red Cross, spent three days in the 災害 zone where he 報告(する)/憶測d seeing people from all 地域s of Libya, even the southern city of Sebha hundreds of kilometres away.

People went to Derna "on their own 率先, tribes did too," Fridez said about the country where 部族の structures and 忠義s remain important.

Restaurateurs have organised meals to 料金d the 追い出すd.

商売/仕事 people and others with the means have also mobilised in the country's west and the south to help those 苦しむing.

The International Organization for 移住 said on Thursday that more than 43,000 people have been uprooted from the 災害 zone.

控訴,上告s to 避難所 them have spread on social マスコミ.

"A family has just arrived in Tripoli from Derna. They quickly need 宿泊するing," one Facebook 地位,任命する said. In 返答, volunteers 申し込む/申し出d their telephone numbers, a first step in 供給するing help.

Residents walk amid buildings damaged by floods after the Mediterranean storm Daniel hit Libya's eastern city of Derna

居住(者)s walk まっただ中に buildings 損失d by floods after the Mediterranean 嵐/襲撃する Daniel 攻撃する,衝突する Libya's eastern city of Derna

Libyan 当局 said it is difficult for them to 答える/応じる to 生存者s' 緊急の needs, but international 援助 has arrived from several countries and 人道的な groups.

Qatar's 大使館 in Libya 発表するd the arrival on Saturday in Benghazi of two 計画(する)s carrying 60 tonnes of 援助. That brings to eight the number of 出荷/船積みs sent by the 湾 首長国.

On Thursday a 計画(する) bringing 援助(する) from the 部隊d 明言する/公表するs also landed in Benghazi, the eastern city about 300 kilometres by road from Derna.

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