Yesterday I posted a diary on Youssiff, a severely burned Iraqi boy unable to afford help outside of Iraq.
Follow up diaries were posted
here and here.
more on the flip:
Some initial contacts were made with CNN and apparently some discussions with Shriners Burn Unit (courtesy of our own Jon Stafford) have been made. But I can't pry any more information out of CNN about what's happened further. If the main story site on CNN is to be believed, no aid organizations have shown interest yet in helping Youssiff. Shriners, if I understand Jon right, will perform the surgery gratis, so getting Youssiff in country and getting the money/clearances necessary to do that is the real trick.
But since I can't seem to get anywhere with CNN right now to get updates, I'm hoping a blog driven pile on can help me extract some information from them.
Please contact CNN. Call, don't email, and try and get a hold of a real person:
404-827-1500
If you get any information, please post it here.
You can expect once daily updates on this until I hear something concrete. Thank you for your help in this.