After the deadly flood in the Ahr Valley, many traumatized residents are still reluctant to seek confidential help.
The employees of a mobile counseling service are even more helpful to you.
Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler - Around six weeks after the start of a mobile advisory service for flood victims in the Ahr Valley, its coordinator draws mixed conclusions. On the one hand, the converted coach with experts in social and psychological help is urgently needed for traumatized residents after the fatal flood disaster in the river valley, says Roswitha Stockhorst from the Ahrweiler district administration of the German press agency. On the other hand, this free and confidential offer is accepted very differently at its around 20 stations over around 50 kilometers in the valley: "I ask myself every day how can I reduce my inhibition threshold even further?"
Lisa Bläser, an employee of the youth aid association for the Ahrweiler district, also says in the bus at a station in the village of Insul that many residents were still hesitant to get into the vehicle with two offices and a play area. Therefore, in the flood-damaged places, she simply offers help to people on the street, for example with filling out forms for financial aid. According to Stockhorst, the around 20 so-called info points as well as the food distribution and donation stores in the river region are particularly suitable for talking to flood victims.
In fear of death, many survived the flash flood after extremely heavy rain on July 14th and 15th in the narrow Ahr valley and lost everything.
The result: 134 fatalities, 766 injured, thousands destroyed or damaged houses and a lot of psychological stress.
The coordinator Stockhorst says: “Often people come to us with practical problems, such as the fact that they no longer have any garbage cans.
Only in a further conversation does it become clear what they have lost and that they do not know what to do next. ”Fears would arise especially before the dark season.
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In the autumn vacation, more children came on the bus.
“That's good for speaking to them directly,” explains Stockhorst.
“Again and again little children play the tide with sand, for example.
This is her way of processing her experiences.
We tell the parents that too. ”However, if children still cannot sleep and shower more than 100 days after the flood, they would be given more comprehensive therapeutic support.
According to the coordinator, it is often a big difference whether flood victims live in the historic wine towns in the Ahr valley with generations-old family structures or as new residents, for example in Sinzig near the mouth of the Ahr into the Rhine: "The newcomers often do not have such good networks, who support them. "
The advisory bus, financed with around 400,000 euros by the Hamburg children's aid organization Plan International Deutschland, will initially stop for several hours in the mornings and afternoons in the disaster area on five days a week for a year.
Outreach social work is the name of this offer from several organizations.
dpa
