L' ALBUM PHOTO D'AMNA

Le jour de Noel, nous sommes allés offrir l'album photo a Amna. Ellizardina (la maman) nou avais fait un 'repas de noel a l'indonesienne' et nous as meme offert des cadeaux (des gateaux)..Amna et sa famille etaient vraiment tres heureux de l'album, et aussi tres emus de voir toutes vos petites tetes et vos beaux sourire.. voici quelques photos...
ps: envoyez-en d'autres, il reste beaucoup de place!

On Xmas day, we gave Amna her photo album of all the people who are helping her: the family was very happy to put faces on all these names..For those of you who haven't sent a picture yet, don't worry: there is plenty of room left in her album!

GOOD NEWS AND NICE EVENING

Here are the news:

1. our french friends managed to collect for the 5th chemo 800 euros (=900 dollars) they are sending it soon, while Dori in the USA collected another 800 dollars: this is going to be plenty for Amna's fifth chemo that starts on the 15th of january.

2. Our french friends have contacted the head of the humanitarian department of Air France (plane company) so that they can get Amna and family in France for free. We are waiting for answers.

3. The french Associations of host families for people suffering from heart diseases have agreed to find a host family for amna and her parents if they come!!

4. OUR BIGGEST SUCCESS: France's most experienced and recognized doctor concerning transplants (a woman: Dr Karima Yakouben) has aggreed to take care of Amna!!!! She is now in contact directly withAmna's doctor in Penang, and we are waiting to see if Amna' s medical record is 'appropriate' for her coming to France.

5. We all know Putri's test might be negative, in what case nobody from Amna's family can be a donor.. But we have a friend in France that works for the French Registry of Bone Marrow Transplant and she has agreed to help us find a donor if needed!

Here are a few pictures of last night at the Junaedi's. See Amna's hair growing back, we saw her for the first time without her hat!

PICTURES OF AMNA FROM LAST JUNE

Amna is on the left!
She wanted me to share these with you!

Amna est sur la gauche!
Elle m'a demandé de partager ces photos avec vous!

update on Amna's health

Bonjour a tous,

Un petit message pour les dernieres nouvelles... Amna a une infection du foie, et nous avons du aujourd hui donner 10 millions Rp (environ 1 000 euros) a rizal pour des medicaments... la docteur, pensant qu ils n auraient pas les sous pour les medicaments, allait operer amna.. bref, nous payons pour les medicaments. Amna ne va pas tres bien et je lui envoie regulierement des textos lui disant qu on pense tous a elle... A bientot pour des nouvelles sur les resultats des tests .

A little message to let you know that unfortunately Amna has contracted a liver infection.. the doctor wanted to operate thinking the family did not have the money for the medication (1 000 dollars) but we were able to get it from our bank account. Amna is not doing so well but i regularly send her text messagges letting her know that we are all thinking of her.. I ll write soon regarding the test results that we should get soon.

Love,
Emily

and more pictures....

Saturday cooking for the Junaedi..

Sachant qu'Ellizardina (la maman) est au côté d'Amna à Penang, et que les hommes indonésiens ne sont pas forcément de bons cuisiniers, nous avons décidé avec Abel et Erwin d'aller faire à manger pour Rizal et ses filles (hozna et latifa). Au menu, pâtes avec une sauce délicieuse à base de tomates, aubergine et carottes. Un plat "occidental" pour eux! Rizal me demande " et le riz"? hihi... bref, un beau moment de bonheur comme en témoigne ces photos.

Knowing that Ellizardina is with Amna in Penang, and that indonesian men are not great cooks, we (erwin abel and emily) decided to go to their house last saturday and cook for men. On the menu: past with a delicious sauce... they were quite horrified when they realized we wouldn't be eating rice..lol A beautiful moment as you can see on the pictures...

THE JUNAEDI IN PENANG FOR THE TESTS

Dear friends, here are a few pictures of the family's trip to Penang, Malaysia, in order to do the compatibility tests. The results take three weeks to come, and we should therefore have them soon!
You can see on the picture of Amna in her hospital bed, the teddy bear I bought for her from all of us.. :)


Chers amis, voici quelques photos du voyage de la famille d'AMna a Penang, pour faire les tests de compatibilité. Les résultats prennent trois semaines à venir, donc nous les aurons bientot!
Vous pouvez voir sur la photo d'Amna le nounours que j'avais offer à Amna de la part de tout le monde.. :)

A bientot
Emily

UPDATES

Hello everyone,


In English: Amna is staying in Penang until her family goes there for the tests.She wasn't feeling well enough to come back to Banda Aceh.Rizal and the girls are going to Penang this saturday. The results of the compatibility tests will come three weeks later. For news, I am in contact with an Indian doctor working for WHO who is investigating the quality and price of an operatio in India. I have also wrote to a french NGO called "Aviation without borders" who take care of bringing sick children to countries where they can be helped. I will let you know when i get answers from all these people.

En français: Les nouvelles sont les suivantes: je suis en contact avec un médecin Indien qui travaille pour l'OMS et qui se renseigne pour nous sur la qualité/prix de l'opération en Inde. Privilégiant tout de meme l'option France, j'ai écrit à Aviation Sans Frontières et leur présentant le cas d'Amna. Je vous tiens au courant de la réponse.

Bisous à tous,
Emily

ORIGINAL FUNDRAISING

Here is one of the many examples of what you can do to help raise money for Amna. My mother is organizing an "Indonesian diner", inviting all her friends to come and spend an evening eating indonesian food... All guests will pay 25 euros to come, and can make extra donations also. During the evening, take time to explain Amna's story, how the funding is organized and show pictures...I'm sure people will want to help!

For those of you who want to organize one of these, here are a few websites to help with the cooking!

http://asiarecipe.com/indonesia.html

http://www.indo.com/restaurants/recipe.html

http://www.sallys-place.com/food/ethnic_cusine/indonesia.htm

Voici une des nombreuse chose que vous pouvez faire pour récolter des fonds pour Amna.. Ma mère a organisé une "Soirée Indonésienne" pendant laquelle les invités mangent indonésiens et découvre l'histoire d'Amna. Chaque invités payent 25 euros pour participer à la soirée...A faire avec des amis!

Pour ceux d'entre vous qui ne sont pas spécialistes de la cuisine indonésienne, les liens ci-dessus peuvent aider!

Emily

Last chemo for Amna

Chers amis,

Amna commence sa dernière chimio demain, a moins que la greffe n'ai pas lieu et soit remplacée par une cinquième chimio...

J'ai vu Pak Rizal hier: il vient de revenir de Penang ou Amna suit actuellement sa quatrième chimio (divisée en deux sessions: la deuxieme commencant demain).

Amna était très très heureuse de recevoir le cadeau que nous lui avons offert de la part de tout le monde: un sac a dos en peluche, un petit pull, des bracelets, et un lettre de la part de tous. Elle m'a réécrit une lettre et m'a fait un dessin qui sera posté ici très bientôt...Amna revient à Banda Aceh le 9 novembre, et repart le 20.

Le 20, toute la famille part faire les tests de compatibilité à Penang. C'est un moment que nous attendons tous depuis longtemps et il nous reste à être patient et croiser les doigts. Nous aurons les résultats trois semaines plus tard.

Avec les dernières sommes recues, nous pouvons payer le voyage de la famille à Penang. Après, la caisse sera vide. L'idée est qu'une association prenne le relais.. Sinon, nous devrons être créatifs rapidement...

A bientot pour de nouvelles infos

Les Junaedi vous embrassent

Dear friends,

Amna is starting her last chemo tomorrow, that is if she receives her bone marrow transplant. If not, she will be undergoing a fifth and last one...

I met with Pak Rizal yesterday: he has just come back from Penang where Amna is undergoing her fourth chemo. This one is divided in two sessions, and the second session starts tomorrow. Amna was very happy to receive a gift from all of us ( I bought her a teddybear bag, a little sweater, bracelets and wrote a letter on behalf of all of us). She wrote back to me and I will post an english version of her letter very soon. Amna will be coming back to Banda Aceh on the 9th of november until the 20th.

On the 20th of november the family will be going back to Penang to do the compatibility tests. This is something we have all been waiting for and we can only keep our fingers crossed now.. The results will come three weeks later...

With the latests money received, we will be able to fund the family's trip to Penang.. After that, I think we will have nothing left. This is not a problem is an organization takes it from there... But there might be last-minute actions we will need to do.

I hope you are all well

All the Junaedi family send their love