Living Life As A Refugee…
Life as a refugee cannot be easy, imagine being displaced and uprooted from your home and to have to leave everything that you know, or lose your life. That is the case for thousands in the Central African Republic. A little known country by the rest of the world, the Central African Republic is rich in diamonds, uranium and gold, but is one of the poorest nations in the world.
War is the cause for it’s refugee problem. People fleeing conflicts between rebels and the government since 2001. Estimated 265,000 displaced by the ravages of war. Adding insult to injury the Central African Republic is stuck between other war torn nations, Chad, Sudan’s Darfur Region and the Democratic Republic of Congo, all in conflict today and all displacing their own people to the region’s refugee camps.
Living in refugee camps is not easy, international aid is coming but not fast enough. Leaving the violence of war only to face the insecurity of refugee life plagued with poverty and illness.
Our job as citizens of this world is to bring awareness to the rest of the world about little know regions like the Central African Republic and the refugee problem that they are experiencing, through our blogging and social networking and to contribute what we can to aid organizations that go into these areas to help out.
Every little bit helps: Here are some Aid Organizations that go into these worn torn areas and try to help in the refugee situtation.
If you’d like to participate: Refugee’s United at Blogcatalog
on November 10th, 2008 at 8:23 pm
i’ve learnt so much today reading up for my post, and reading other peoples post. Its incredible how many people are in this situation.
on November 10th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
It is tragic that the innocent children suffer the most out of war. Very useful links, at the end of an excellent post. Best wishes.
on November 10th, 2008 at 11:05 pm
Great post and thanks for supporting Bloggers Unite Day for this so important cause.
on November 12th, 2008 at 11:11 am
I do agree with you. The very simple task to do as an indiviual is rasing the awarness.
p.s. I’m lad to find another blog from Africa, my continent as I’m to the north-east of your country; Egypt!
on November 22nd, 2008 at 6:56 am
It is a tragedy! My last two posts have been on similar topics and researching them was so heart breaking.