World Emergency Relief
This is the blog of World Emergency Relief (WER), a leading international relief and development organisation which works to feed and protect poor children all over the world. WER currently supports more than 30 projects, including orphanages, healthcare and education, in 15 countries across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Central America and the Caribbean Basin.
Fleeing from genocide in Burundi
By Ben Carter In 1994 Nyangoma Esperance and her six children fled their home near the Burundi capital. They feared murder at the hands of their own neighbours. For 15 years she has worked hard to build a new life for her family just 6km away but she still dreams of going back. Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world with some 80 percent of its population living on less than $1 a day. Like most Burundians, Nyangoma supported her family through farming. She lived with her six children and her father in a place called Gakunrwe, near the capital city, Bujumbura. ...
