Refugees
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This is the same for us when we help refugees, people displaced within their country by conflict, or stateless persons, I know many people, when they are confronted by overwhelming suffering, they feel powerless and they stop there.
I know I'm very lucky compared to the
refugees
I work for.
In the north of Uganda, there are something like 1.5 million internally displaced people, people who are not
refugees
in another country, but because of the civil war, which has been going on for about 20 years, they have nowhere to live.
When they were released, we left and we went as
refugees
to Kenya and Tanzania.
And when I went to the refugee camp in Pakistan, there were 7.5 million
refugees.
7.5 million
refugees.
Aref and his family fled to New York from Saddam Hussein's Iraq as
refugees.
It's the spot in continental Europe closest to Britain, and a lot of migrants and
refugees
are staying in this camp and are trying desperately to cross over to Britain.
If you go to Calais and talk to refugees, you'll meet lawyers, politicians, engineers, graphic designers, farmers, soldiers.
But who all of these people are usually gets lost in the way we talk about
refugees
and migrants, because we usually do that in statistics.
So you have 60 million
refugees
globally.
Tomm Christiansen: The first time we were in Calais, it was about 1,500
refugees
there.
But the thing is that the
refugees
have stayed for a longer time, and the French government has managed to seal off the borders better, so now The Jungle is growing, along with the despair and hopelessness among the
refugees.
And let me take a pause in this story right here and ask the question: why do
refugees
like Doaa take these kinds of risks?
Millions of
refugees
are living in exile, in limbo.
Why is there no massive resettlement program for Syrian refugees, the victims of the worst war of our times?
Why is there so little investment in the neighboring countries hosting so many
refugees?
But you two traveled to the island of Lesbos very recently, you're just back a couple of days ago, in Greece, where thousands of
refugees
are arriving and have been arriving over the last few months.
And we installed networks there to allow basic communication, because I think, I believe, it's not only that we have to speak about the refugees, I think we need to start talking to them.
I want to introduce the Arabic language to young learners, foreign speakers, but most importantly help
refugees
integrate to their host societies through creating a bilingual learning system, a two-way flow of communication.
I've had Americans tell me that they've donated, direct deductions from their bank account, money to go to Syrian children
refugees.
During 2015, almost one million
refugees
and migrants arrived in Europe from many different countries, of course, from Syria and Iraq, but also from Afghanistan and Bangladesh and Eritrea and elsewhere.
And the first question is very simple: Why has the movement of
refugees
spiked so fast in the last six months?
Not only are they refugees, out of home, not only have they suffered what they have suffered, but they are living in very, very dramatic conditions.
The World Food Programme was forced, for lack of resources, to cut by 30 percent food support to the Syrian
refugees.
Millions of
refugees
are in camps and villages and towns around Syria.
They are the three countries that are, in the end, receiving the
refugees.
AG: Well, that is a question that has no answer, because
refugees
have the right to be protected.
Turkey has now two million three-hundred thousand or something of the sort, if you count all
refugees.
And it's not only about refugees; there are many other areas.
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