Help find stranded woman in Schipol Airport in Amsterdam
Friday, April 16th, 2010Please help my friend Rajesh Gupta find his missing relative in Amsterdam. Leave me a comment if you know anyone who can help.
Here’s Raj message date Friday, April 16
I have a bit of an emergency request and was wondering if you could tap into the Soros network for this.
We’re trying very hard to find someone — anyone — who’s among the 2000 air travelers stranded inside the Amsterdam airport, and would be willing to accept a cell phone call, locate a missing person in the airport, and get a message to her.
Sophia Atila Kafu, 65+, from rural western Kenya , speaks no English and has been stranded at Schipol Airport in Amsterdam now for over a day and a half. She has never traveled by air, speaks Kiswahili only, does not have a cell phone that works outside of Kenya , has very little cash and no credit card. She made the brave decision to travel alone to attend her daugher Agnes’s university graduation in Halifax, Nova Scotia, equipped only with letters written in English that say things such as, “I am lost and don’t speak English. Please direct me to flight XXX…” and “In case of emergency, please call my daughter’s cell phone #: +1 902 971 xxxx“. We haven’t been able to reach her, and don’t know whether she is aware of the volcano and what’s going on. She had 16 euros with her when she landed, and had a layover of 11 hours BEFORE her flight from Amsterdam to Toronto was cancelled, so she is probably out of money. She has never operated a pay phone.
She has now been tentatively rebooked, on KLM/Delta Flight 671 to Montreal at 2:45 pm tomorrow (provided the European airports reopen), but we have no way of getting the information about her new flight to her. Delta, KLM, airport personnel, airport police, Kenayan embassy will not help locate her.
So if you know of any one stuck in Schiphol and can get a hold of them and they would be willing to do a bit of an insane task…please let me know. I think specifically about the Soros fellows for this request because I am imagine all of know directly or indirectly of someone making that first scary airline flight into a completely unknown part of the world…
Hugs to all of you,
Raj
