Marie Bettings This is Me

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1. 1. www.saultstar.com

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   Published on: 1/4/2008   Last Visited: 1/4/2008

   Marie Bettings, a Canadian aid worker in Nairobi, was ready to introduce her mom and sister to the culture of the busy east African city when they arrived from Toronto for a New Year's visit.
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   Bettings is now trying to ensure they have enough food and water while they wait out the crisis.
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   Bettings, a program officer with World Vision, is stationed in Kenya. Many non-governmental agencies set up shop there as it was considered a stable area to organize aid and distribute food and medicine to other, more volatile parts of Africa.
   
   With aid shipments being delayed or even halted, Bettings is afraid Kenya's political unrest will have ripple effects to a large part of the continent.
   
   "Many agencies have their headquarters for Somalia, have their headquarters for south Sudan (here). . . . The longer these offices stay closed the trickier it is going to be for us to continue making sure that operations are moving, both in Kenya and neighbouring countries as well," she said. "The longer that this persists the more magnitude this humanitarian crisis is going to have."Bettings said Nairobi now doesn't remotely resemble the city she and her husband moved to six months ago.
   
   She described the Nairobi of less than a week ago as a bustling city with women vendors selling fruits, vegetables and flowers in the street. Bettings laughed when she said her only worry about living in the neighbourhood was how to navigate around the pedestrians when driving.

2. 2. www.savethechildren.ca

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   Published on: 12/1/2006   Last Visited: 9/8/2007

   Marie Bettings, Comms Officer, World Vision Canada marie bettings@worldvision.ca

3. 3. www.macleans.ca

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   Published on: 1/3/2008   Last Visited: 1/3/2008

   Marie Bettings, a Canadian aid worker in Nairobi, was ready to introduce her mom and sister to the culture of the busy east African city when they arrived from Toronto for a New Year's visit.
   ...
   Bettings is now trying to ensure they have enough food and water while they wait out the crisis.
   ...
   Bettings, a program officer with World Vision, is stationed in Kenya. Many non-governmental agencies set up shop there as it was considered a stable area to organize aid and distribute food and medicine to other, more volatile parts of Africa.
   
   With aid shipments being delayed or even halted, Bettings is afraid Kenya's political unrest will have ripple effects to a large part of the continent.
   
   "Many agencies have their headquarters for Somalia, have their headquarters for south Sudan (here) ... The longer these offices stay closed the trickier it is going to be for us to continue making sure that operations are moving, both in Kenya and neighbouring countries as well," she said. "The longer that this persists the more magnitude this humanitarian crisis is going to have."
   
   Bettings said Nairobi now doesn't remotely resemble the city she and her husband moved to six months ago.
   
   She described the Nairobi of less than a week ago as a bustling city with women vendors selling fruits, vegetables and flowers in the street. Bettings laughed when she said her only worry about living in the neighbourhood was how to navigate around the pedestrians when driving.
   
   "It's like a completely different city. Today when we woke up we could see on the horizon plumes of smoke rising ... massive plumes of smoke," she said. "The streets are dead ... a ghost town."
   
   She and her husband ventured out in her vehicle Thursday for food, water and gas.