Sunday, October 28, 2012

The Survival


About 143 million children in the world have lost either their mother or father. About 13 million of them lost both their mother and father (UNICEF). In the Democratic Republic of  Congo, many civil wars are going over the country. Because of that many people have to flee from the country. Baruani Ndume is one of the thousands children who had to flee from the country. While fleeing, like the 13 million people, he lost both his mother and father. By being one of the 13 million people, he decided to help other refugee children by creating a radio station. Baruani knew that losing family is a miserable event to happen, and that reuniting families would make one happy. He also knew that refugee children needed support to create hope that their situation could be improved.

Baruani knew that losing their family is a very miserable thing to happen. So, Baruani is trying to help other children reunite with their family by creating a radio station. Not only he saw how other people’s living were hard .But by experiencing the pain himself, he decided to help others. “He lost his parents and ended up in the Nyarugusu refugee camp.”(Child Peace Prize) He ran away during a war, and now his left along without his parents. That was the pain he got. So, he didn’t want others to get the same feeling with the others. So, he reunited other children with their family. Therefore, many people in the world are thanking Baruani for helping them finding the children/parents. In the other hand, he can’t just go travel around the country and find their family. Baruani thought what would make the words spread around in a short time. That was a radio program. “He has succeeded in setting up a radio program in which he talks about problems and challenges with his peer refugee.” (Child Peace Prize) Therefore, being a kid and losing his own family, he still pretended being an adult and being strong so that he can make family reunite. The program was even successful! It was spread over 3 countries

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With the help of Baruani, the children in the refugee gained hope. Since other children found their parents, those children who are willing to find their children would have the confidence to share their worries and fears to the radio. “Thanks to this, so many children have now been reunited with their families.” Since other children knew that other refugees who were reunited got the help of Baruani, the other refugee who aren’t reunited yet got the confidence to tell their story about what happened to them. Therefore, children who haven’t been rescued have to go to Baruani in order to find their parents. With this, many children will be reunited. We also need parents so that they can give us education. All the school fees are provided by the parents no matter where you are. Parents send the money to the guardian to pay for the school fee. “In certain refugee camps there are still children who are denied their right to education.” If parents were here to help their children, they would do anything for us to get education. That’s what most parents do. They do whatever they need for their children to get an education and at least get a living in the futre.

Like Baruani, we should all try to reunite their family. At least try to. Don’t just sit there and listen to Baruani speak. Do something! Since Baruani is here in the world, 145 million children without their parents will be lower. 13 million of the world’s population doesn’t have their parents.  All children should have their rights to reunite with their parents to have a better future because if they don’t have any parents to support him, the children won’t have a better future.