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| | Short waves create long-term help |
| A team of four Dutch radio amateurs, including Ad van Ginneken of Fujitsu Siemens, made a big difference when they joined forces with charity Mercy Ships and travelled to Monrovia, Liberia last year. Taken with the Mercy Ships initiative, bringing medical care to those in need using hospital ships, the team knew they had to help. Their aims were simple: spread the word about |  |
Mercy Ships, raise money for a clinic in Monrovia and support the few local radio amateurs with equipment. With everything in place, the scene was set for a unique radio event to take place.
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Radio amateurs are always on the look-out for countries in which there is little or no radio amateur activity, so when a “rare” country like Liberia was activated, people from all over the world tried to make contact via short wave. Once contact had been made the international radio amateurs would send a special postcard to Holland confirming the contact and also donating money to the Mercy Ships project in Monrovia. After three weeks the team closed the three radio configurations, logging 27,879 contacts.
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| Soon after returning home thousands of confirmation postcards and donations arrived and are still coming in – about $10,000 has been received so far. Over 50,000 people visited the Mercy Ships website and left heart warming comments. The clinic the team had raised money for has been built and on leaving Liberia, they donated the resources they had taken over for the project |  |
(construction materials, generators etc.) to it and an orphanage that Mercy Ships were in the process of constructing. The team also donated equipment to the Liberia Radio Amateur Association so they could form a new club station. The goals they set themselves were most definitely reached.
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Fujitsu Siemens equipped the team with 3 LIFEBOOK C1410 computers which, despite the heat and humidity levels, performed without any problems in a wireless network configuration for almost three weeks. |
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The first 20,000 euros donation from its action FSCgoes4Kids goes to World Vision |
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