November 1999
IRINA MIKHAJLOVA YASHCHENKO
(chairman of the Ola branch of the RAIPON Regional Association of the Magadan Oblast, phone/fax +7-41 341-25 271, pilc@online.magadan.su )
The Ola branch of the RAIPON Regional Association of the Magadan Oblast, which has about 620 members of indigenous groups, is circulating a request for humanitarian aid. The majority of the population is unemployed because of the absence of jobs. Parents have not received any allowance for children since 1997. About 70% of the children are registered with chronic illnesses at the health stations. There are no financial means for medical treatment of the children. The Association is asking for humanitarian aid for their members in the form of medicines, and also in the form of clothes and shoes.