"They are battling against all foreign jihadists, even those who just came to help us".The correspondent is the Syria project coordinator for the Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR), a charity.
This excitement tended to wear off, though, as the mothers realized that the nurses weren't just coming to help them change diapers but to pressure them to quit smoking or return to high school or make other serious changes to improve the economic and emotional stability of their child.
And just last month, two former presidents, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton, came to help jump-start fund-raising for earthquake relief.
"I just came over here to help our neighbors," Mr. Williams said.
I got out of my car like I could just conquer the world because somebody was coming to help me.
After about two hours, I reached City Park, which was filled with scruffy encampments for workers who had come to help with, or maybe just profit from, the cleanup.
Mannheim authorities feel they have decades of experience not just when it comes to helping qualified newcomers access the workplace, but also community relations.
I just came here to get some help," said subsistence farmer Markus Bagard, one of approximately 200 Haitians standing outside the airstrip watching the helicopters be unloaded.
"Grover is preside of the Fair just the same as ever," Mr. Gibson said, "I have just come in to help him with some details which perhaps I am better at than he is.
"I just came and listened and tried to help, and by the end of it people were chanting, 'Long live the woman!' It doesn't matter to Egyptians whether someone is a woman or a man, what's important is whether it's someone who can understand and help them.
But a lot of people feel really proud, they feel that if they ask for help they are sort of letting themselves down... it is up to the individual...So yes, I haven't really seen a lot of people just come to me asking for help.' The general practice team did not consider it was their role to be proactive primarily because of time constraints.
