European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 5, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Daring to care from the cover. Saw upright on the Couch and lights a kenyan cigarette. Flies hover just above the rim of her stained Coffee cup. Outside a Muslim Call for prayer stirs some bodyguards resting under a Shady tree in a Dusty courtyard. A care colleague pops through the doorway to Check on Exner s condition. Like Exner Ann Morris is a of Alth care worker assigned to the Agency a four person team in Bairoa. Morris left a party Early the night before to keep a watch Over Exner who required intravenous injections of Medicine. A a How arc you feeling Quot Morris  Good a comes exnery a Rote response. She thinks for a second and then offers a second and third assessment. A better. Zoned  As the conversation flaws Between coherent thought and Mere words Exner talks about the forces that led her to choose humanitarian work As her life a Catling. In third world countries such As Somalia malaria is just one of Many issues humanitarian workers must contend with As they go about their business of providing Basic assistance. Despite the drawbacks a person must have an unwavering passion to help people who Are less fortunate says Exner who joined care in july. A if you first done to do it for yourself a Exner says a you can t do it for someone else.�?�. Care is one of More than two dozen humanitarian agencies operating in Somalia. The International red Cross Catholic Relief services con Ecru and International medical corps arc among the other organizations in Somalia. A the challenges Are Many a says Korky Schnitker an american working for inc Quot the rewards Are Many. You done to always see immediate successes but Over time you see things come into   been All that hospitable for foreign Aid workers. Six have been murdered this year and somalis also have died working for humanitarian groups. While villages beyond the rumbled remains of Mogadishu Are generally Calmer than the somali capital humanitarians in Bairoa arc still escorted by armed guards whenever they venture outside their walled compounds. Somali bandits used to brandish guns to get what they wanted like food or Medicine says Kent Elliott the Bairoa team Leader for care International in Somalia. A now it s come to the Point where they would shoot without asking any questions Elliott says. So the question is Why do people risk their health and their lives in such a place As Somalia Money is certainly not the reason. Monthly salaries Range from $300 for College graduates to $900 for seasoned Velera is. R a unfortunately this Isnit a place for real Young folks coming out of College a Elliott says. A the peace corps is Good for beginners. A we Are talking about emergency Relief. You Don t have a year to get your feet on the ground. You might have 24  Morris says Aid workers a who come to these places Are hot martyrs putting their lives on the  they feel they Are making a big difference in Small ways. The difference might involve finding a link Between hepatitis and a villages bad drinking water or instructing a midwife on the proper care for postpartum Haemorrhaging. A a it a very difficult work a Morris says a but in the Long run it s far More rewarding than a routine health care Job. Some humanitarian workers like living on the aps amps agricultural adviser Richard Dixon of care meets with somali Farmers outside Bairoa. S4s Vine crawl Edge. That can leave them in Depths of withdrawal. When they try to reintegrate into the mainstream Morris says. They can end up humanitarian of cards Drifting from one trouble spot to the next while Mottys debunks the martyrdom myth enough of her colleagues have paid the ultimate Price. The most recent humanitarian worker to die was a somali Man who served As cares chief of Security in Mogadishu. The nine year care employee was gunned Down last month. A a it Stike a drug to them a Morris says of some humanitarian workers. A maybe they feel More alive if they think they could be dead the next  others possess a misguided notion of immortality moms says. That feeling is Odd in a land where the proliferation of guns is so pervasive that magazines from ak-47 assault rifles Are checked in at u n. Compounds the Way someone would leave behind a a. S4s Vince Raffay Kent to lilt a we Are talking about emergency relict hat and coat. But Morris admits that even she has on occasion fallen into complacency. Morris the Deputy team Leader for care in Bairoa says that when she worked in Northern Somalia for committee Aid abroad she once tried to talk a Bandit out of stealing her car. Having lost two other vehicles the same Way Morris was irritated at the Prospect of losing a third. Quot i was very annoyed a she remembers. Morris tried to persuade the gunman to let her drive him to where he wanted to go. It did no to work. The gunman drove off with the car. Morris shake s. Her head in disbelief As she rec units the incident. Given the current environment today s Bandit May have shot her dead. A this feeling of immortality that you Are never going to die is very silly Quot she says. Morris 35, hails from Adelaide Australia. In her a six years of humanitarian work she has served in Australia new zealand England Scotland and saudi Arabia. Morris arrived in Bairoa in february her second stint in Somalia. Her first tour was a one year assignment in the City of Erig Avo in Northern Somalia in 1988. Since then the Region a called Somaliland a has declared its Independence from the rest of the country. Before coming to Bairoa Morris completed her masters degree in science and primary health care. She figures she is better prepared for her second run in Somalia. The first tour overlapped some of the fiercest it fighting in Somalia a civil War. At one Point Umaru tarian workers were evacuated from Somaliland but Morris and her co workers were somehow left behind. She did t even know about the evacuation until she hear account on the radio. A they evacuated Hargeisa a the capital of Somaliland she remembers a and forgot to gel  like Morris Elliott is on his second stint in Somalia. Elliott 59, came to Somalia on behalf of world concern in August 1992. He stayed until april and returned a month later to work for care in Bairoa. Elliott is a retired army colonel and former Green Beret who served four Tours in Vietnam he volunteered for red Cross disaster service in Florida and caught the humanitarian Bug. Three years ago he sold his trailer Home business in Lakeland fla., and signed on with a Relief Agency gearing up for the persian Gulf War. ,. That turned into a family affair. With two sons and a daughter in the military Elliott followed them continued on Page 5 Page 4 sunday december 5, 1993