International Youth Day by Jenny Perlman Robinson
August 12th was International Youth Day. For the more than 8 million displaced young people—ages 15 to 24—around the world, there is little cause for celebration.
Surviving in the Informal Economy
On Media Voices this week, we have a blog from Jina Krause-Vilmar, Senior Program Officer for Livelihoods with the Women’s Refugee Commission, on the difficulties and challenges faced by women and girls attempting to support their families in refugee camps. Food rations are often inadequate, and the women must supplement their family’s nutrition by working. [...]
Struggling to Make a Living in Ethiopia
Food is scarce in Ethiopia, where most of the population lives in rural, drought-prone areas in a state of chronic poverty. In 2010, the Government of Ethiopia identified 5.2 million people in need of emergency food aid. Not surprisingly, this hunger crisis also impacts the thousands of refugees living just within Ethiopia’s borders.
Forced to Flee – Cambodia’s Rapid Development
This video from IRIN, a project of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, presents the moving story of 50-year-old Sum Rin, displaced from a shanty town in the centre of the Cambodian capital Phnom Penh to make way for a new commercial development.
Pass it On!
The more time you spend on the Media Voices web site, the easier it will become to understand why we consider subscribing and sharing our information with your friends to be the equivalent of Taking Action for children. Look at the stories we have posted in just the past few days. Unfortunately, they describe the [...]
L.E.A.D. Uganda – Child Soldiers
L.E.A.D. Uganda is an educational leadership initiative for children affected by AIDS, war, and poverty. We find children living on the edges of society – AIDS orphans, former child soldiers, child laborers. We give them the world-class, 21st century skills necessary to lead Africa into the future.
Forced to Flee – Democratic Republic of Congo
A brutal war has been raging in the Democratic Republic of Congo for over twenty years. Hundreds of thousands of people have had to flee their homes for makeshift camps for the internally displaced. This film tells the story of some of the displaced people living in the camp at Minova, where women face the choice of getting attacked when they leave the camp to get food or of letting their children starve.
Education in Emergencies
For refugees and people displaced by civil war and natural disasters, acquiring an education can be nearly impossible. But education in these dire circumstances is often a lifeline and key to any possibility of having a better life. This video, produced by the Women’s Commission on Refugee Women and Children, tells three first person stories in Kenya, Afghanistan and Liberia.
