Pride and poverty in a refugee camp
Fatima is 27 years old and has 7 children, with the 8th on the way. And she has some 30 mouths to feed in her extended family. Despite her poverty and daily struggle, she is proud of both her family and her position in her community. We see reports on the nightly news about the camps – how many millions of refugees, how much aid gets sent, where the human tide is going. But if you really want to learn about some of the issues surrounding the refugees, check out Fatima, the young first wife of a village chief, forced into the camps by marauding rebels. She is proud of her status as first wife and of her Muslim faith. She works extraordinarily hard – digging dirt for $3 a day, growing a garden, doing odd chores – to feed herself and her family. Fatima does NOT want handouts – she wants to go home to her village, where she can plant her crops and raise her livestock and teach her children to grow up to be proper men and women. Because Fatima and her family have not crossed an international border, they are “Internally Displaced People” – even though their village was burned to the ground and many of her friends and family killed. As an IDP, she gets almost no aid and no protection. Fatima deserves a second chance. Tune in for a new video every week from the far corners of Our Human Planet! http://www.YouTube.com/OurHumanPlanet Download our complete 2-hour PBS documentary series on Sudan/Refugee Camps: http://www.japanlandonline.com/ Subscribe to OUR HUMAN PLANET: https://bit.ly/2V4LsRa #Travel #Adventure #Sudan Category: Travel
Fatima is 27 years old and has 7 children, with the 8th on the way. And she has some 30 mouths to feed in her extended family. Despite her poverty and daily struggle, she is proud of both her family and her position in her community. We see reports on the nightly news about the camps – how many millions of refugees, how much aid gets sent, where the human tide is going. But if you really want to learn about some of the issues surrounding the refugees, check out Fatima, the young first wife of a village chief, forced into the camps by marauding rebels. She is proud of her status as first wife and of her Muslim faith. She works extraordinarily hard – digging dirt for $3 a day, growing a garden, doing odd chores – to feed herself and her family. Fatima does NOT want handouts – she wants to go home to her village, where she can plant her crops and raise her livestock and teach her children to grow up to be proper men and women. Because Fatima and her family have not crossed an international border, they are “Internally Displaced People” – even though their village was burned to the ground and many of her friends and family killed. As an IDP, she gets almost no aid and no protection. Fatima deserves a second chance. Tune in for a new video every week from the far corners of Our Human Planet! http://www.YouTube.com/OurHumanPlanet Download our complete 2-hour PBS documentary series on Sudan/Refugee Camps: http://www.japanlandonline.com/ Subscribe to OUR HUMAN PLANET: https://bit.ly/2V4LsRa #Travel #Adventure #Sudan Category: Travel