Living like a refugee
Imagine that your life, as you know it, disappears in the blink of an eye. War, violence or fear for your family’s safety force you to flee your home. After hours or even days of a torturous journey, you find shelter far away, in a squalid tent. You are dependent on handouts of food; possibly have no clean drinking water or access to health care that prevents outbreaks of cholera, dysentery, hepatitis, malaria, and other diseases.
Not a pretty picture, right? But the fact is that millions of people around the world, in countries big and small, people of all ages and many nationalities, have been living in such desolate and precarious conditions for years.
We here at UAA work with communities and families that have been refugees . Our School Program for 2013 is focusing on Bouake in the Ivory Coast, a city just now cleaning up from a brutal civil war. We want to send 500 kids back to school so this city has a better chance of recovery and long term sustainability.
In addition, our Christmas Wish program will be taken to the border just outside Mali. It is as close as we can get without sitting right in the middle of Mali’s current conflict. Our determination is to bring a little joy and Famil Love to orphans, who have been ravaged by the consequences by civil war and loss of family due to AIDS. It’s a harsh world for these kids... we can give them hugs and the tools they need to survive this world they themselves had no hand in creating. Please join us...
