European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 6, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Somalia race after a pickup in Hopes of getting a free to shirt Aid workers Home to distribute the clothing from a moving vehicle to avoids mob scene. Continued from Page 14 air transports carrying As much As 16 tons of cargo each. Its a huge undertaking for the a two men and others elsewhere in Somalia. Macentire is trained in Dairy operations. Swift Ruddy Youngman with a Boyish sunburned face is a graphics Art student. Both Are amateurs in the business of food Relief on the front lines of the catastrophe Here. To 23 and responsible for the welfare of 33,000 a people Quot Swift said. Quot so t feel  before the establishment of the town committee Day to Day life in Waajid revolved around Irish concern where the provision of food clothing and blankets helped halve a 100-a-Day death rate. The Relief Effort also provided the few jobs available by employing truck Drivers porters Security guards Cooks and maids. About 170 residents mostly women Are being paid to clean up the town under a sanitation program designed to Clear the area of debris and castoffs military equipment Shell casings and. Sometimes Tive ammunition. In addition Irish concern has offered a Community Structure which in the Long term could prove its most important contribution. Through Macentire and Swift the program gives the Waajid civil authorities a mayor Roble and his town committee a something to work with until the country begins functioning on its own. Macentire confers with Roble and town committee members on distribution schedules for 13 town kitchens and two outlying villages. Then the mayor chairs a meeting during which a system is developed for providing daily rations to Waajid residents who Are physically handicapped and unable to get to feeding centers. Still even As towns such As Waajid cling to some form of government people familiar with Somalia say reestablishing Long term order depends on the resumption of successful farming. And that won t happen said an Irish concern worker in the town of Oddur until people Are assured there is a future other than death by starvation disease or War. Quot if we can flood Somalia with food we can end the fighting for Good Quot said Patrick Dillon 41, of Brooklyn . Quot people operate Here As if there is no tomorrow. Quot every human being in Makool District does not know if they Are going to eat tomorrow. Fill the roads with food and people will be Able to take a breath and say. Ill eat however such peace of mind in the town of 25,000 people seems a Long Way off. Irish concern workers nearly started a riot earlier at their Headquarters in Oddur when they tried to distribute blankets and were overwhelmed by hundreds of desperate people. So when Mark Mullan 28, and Bemie o Neill 29, wanted to hand out 500 to shirts recently they filled the Back of their pickup truck with them Early one evening. Driving through the Village and into neighbourhoods of refugees from War an famine they threw the shirts into the wind. The method did not produce a riot but instead a tragic Parade of hundreds of children and mothers and exhausted grandparents a beaten by fear and famine and fighting a who raced after the truck. The somalis were frantic. Then for some with their arms outstretched and their hands clutching the air the desperation turned to comic laughter As they ran stumbled and fell to the  it was Over a baby had tumbled from his Mother s Back an old Man had tripped Over his thin Cotton Robe and a Little boy had run through a Field of shallow Graves All for an Aqua or White to shirt. Quot no one thinks about the future Here Quot Dillon said. Quot no one thinks about the Long  to the pled Piper of Waajid a says Hugh Swift a worker with Aid group Irish concern Asha carries a child through the streets of the City. Carries a Page 16 a the stars and stripes wednesday january 6. 1993