Posts under Tag: refugees
Refugee Services with Jenni Broom

An interview with Jenni Broom -  National Manager, Refugee Services Aotearoa – in which we follow the process of settling refugees in this country.

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Grief and Despondency in Sri Lanka’s Camps
Grief and Despondency in Sri Lanka’s Camps

The following is reprinted with permission from Reuters AlertNet. Images used in this article were obtained from the author and are used with permission from the author. The views expressed in this article are the author’s alone.
Through our partner in Sri Lanka, TEAR Fund is one of the few organisations with good access to those suffering through displacement.
Written by: A [...]

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TEAR Fund Helping Refugees in Pakistan

TEAR Fund has recently approved a sum of money to be sent to our partner in Pakistan to provide assistance to the many people who are now refugees after fleeing the Swat Valley area to the fighting between government forces and the Taliban.
Pakistan is a country we are monitoring closely.

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Pact Signed in Darfur

A first step has been made towards peace in Darfur with an agreement of “good intention” being signed between the government of Sudan and the main rebel group from the western Darfur region.
The agreement comes after negotiations hosted by Qatar and jointly sponsored by Qatar, the United Nations, African Union and Arab League and they hold the hope that this will [...]

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Understanding Humanitarian Problems Through Games

Allow us to introduce you to two great games.
Most sites aimed at helping people to understand different humanitarian problems are very heavily geared towards readers (including this one). They present information that needs to be read. Not all people learn in this way though. For that reason, there are various online games you can now play to understand such situations [...]

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