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The refugee crisis Europe forgot
By Phoebe Greenwood Just outside Montenegro's capital Podgorica, next to the city's rubbish dump, is Konik refugee camp. A sprawl of tin-roofed huts and U.N. tents enclosed by wire-fencing, it is home to more than 2,000 Roma refugees who have lived here for ten years since fleeing violence in Kosovo. It is the largest refugee camp in the Balkans. Hundreds of children live here in inhuman conditions without enough food or water and yet almost no one outside of Montenegro has heard of it. Conditions in Konik are dire. Fires are a regular threat and often fatal. Three weeks ago, a blaze caused by faulty wiring destroyed 18 wooden huts and left 124 people without shelter. These families now live in U.N. refugee agency (UNHCR) tents or have moved in with relatives in their already over-crowded shacks. This time, luckily, no lives were lost. ...
No space to bury the dead after Cyclone Aila
This blog is written by Fariha Sarawat, Communications Manager for Save the Children UK in Bangladesh. 7 June 2009 "We can't even find the space to bury the dead. We have never seen so much water before," the stranded residents of Nolia village, on the southern coast of Bangladesh, informed us. ...
Plight of children stuck in Sri Lankan camps
I visited Vavuniya in early May, one of the towns in the north of Sri Lanka where lots of people uprooted by fighting between troops and rebels have arrived over the last few months. Since my previous visit in March, the number of displaced had really grown. ...
Desperate conditions face Sri Lanka's fleeing families
Stein Lied is a protection adviser for Save the Children in Vavuniya, Sri Lanka. It's in the camps which have been receiving the newest arrivals that the situation is most overstretched and the families are most desperate. Our staff knew some of the people who were in the last flows of people from the 'No Fire' Zone - but they struggled to recognise them on arrival because they were in such poor condition and had lost so much weight. ...
PHOTOBLOG: Two stories of child hunger in Kenya
This blog is written by Colin Crowley, Multimedia Officer for Save the Children UK's Emergencies Department. Colin regularly travels to the places where Save the Children is responding to emergencies like armed conflicts, famine, or natural disasters to take photographs and videos telling the stories of the people involved. FATUMA'S STORY - "This is what we have to do" ...
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