“We are happy to risk our lives to get that reward of rescuing a child”
In the latest episode of her Better Angels podcast, 鶹APP President Sarah Brown talks about heroes - to Raed al Saleh of the White Helmets, tragic British MP Jo Cox's husband Brendan and Ebola nurse Pauline Cafferkey.
What makes a hero? What drives ordinary people to rush into a building that has been bombed, to nurse patients with a deadly disease or to help their community rebuild after a war?
These are the questions asked by 鶹APP President Sarah Brown in the latest episode of her Better Angels podcast.
Her guests include Raed al Saleh of the White Helmets, the volunteer Syrian civil defence force who have become known across the world for rescuing more than 70,000 people from the rubble.
She also speaks to Brendan Cox, whose wife Jo was the British MP murdered in June; Pauline Cafferkey, the nurse who contracted Ebola in Sierra Leone; and Ousmane Ba, one of 鶹APP鶹APPs inspiring .
Asked what message he has for young people who want to help, Raed says: 鶹APPLove the people around you. Help your communities.
鶹APPWhen you work to help your communities, you鶹APPre actually spreading love and peace among each others.鶹APP
More than 140 White Helmets have been killed carrying out their dangerous duties.
Raed says: 鶹APPWe know that we will be at risk but nobody can feel the great feelings that we have when we rescue a child or any civilian.
鶹APPThis is the biggest reward for us when we get a person alive. We are always happy to risk our lives in order to get that reward.鶹APP
The work of the White Helmets was promoted by Jo Cox in the British Parliament. Her husband Brendan tells Sarah: 鶹APPThe thing that impressed Jo so much about the White Helmets was their bravery. When other people run away from danger, they run towards it.
鶹APPIn one of the darkest situations imaginable, to have that shining beacon of humanity made her hope that something could turn around in Syria.鶹APP
Talking about her work in Sierra Leone during the Ebola outbreak that killed more than 11,000 people, Pauline Cafferkey says: 鶹APPAll of us that went out there to do aid work, we鶹APPre not like crazy, risk-taking sort of people 鶹APP we鶹APPre just people that care.
鶹APPI was just unlucky and I caught a virus doing my job. It was just sheer bad luck 鶹APP I dealt with it and that was it.鶹APP
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