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Recently arrived refugees from Somalia prepare to bury the body of Sahro at the Kobe refugee camp
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We all have fled and hidden sometime in life.
For many millions of people, fleeing is not an option, is a matter of survival. No choice, no alternatives. For them to escape is the only option and involves difficult decisions. They have lost everything, yet, very reluctantly, have a huge responsibility and power, which forces them to decide on the death of their children and their elders.
Decide who undertakes the journey through the desert for weeks with little food or water, exposed to attack by hyenas and armed militias. Deciding which child is more likely to arrive alive to the refugee camps. A superhuman power in the hands of a humble people. The same power that allows them to move forward after seeing their children and relatives to die on the road. And despite this immense power, can do nothing when, after the hardship of the road, having reached the goal, as in a dream, it vanishes in their hands the lives of children who managed to arrive. Exhausted, dying. The sad toll that pay those who have nothing and need everything.
Facing certain death, fear of losing their lives, is perhaps the greatest fear of human being.
Millions of people in the Horn of Africa are faced daily with their fears and harshly survive without losing hope of winning the battle to the death. That is their power. That is their lesson to the rest of the world.
People in rich countries also flee and hide from their fears. Fear of a reality too complex and hard to face it. The fear of losing their privileges. Fear of an empty and meaningless life. Escape those fears also requires making decisions, choosing among alternatives. Alternatives of life, not of death. Look the other way, build walls, imagining threats, build prejudices, consuming without measure. Human responses that increase the inequality gap. There is still hope, we are taught daily by millions of people living in poverty thresholds. Just have to make the right decisions.
Live without being ashamed of a privileged life. Die without regret not having done anything by the underprivileged.
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We all have fled and hidden sometime in life.
For many millions of people, fleeing is not an option, is a matter of survival. No choice, no alternatives. For them to escape is the only option and involves difficult decisions. They have lost everything, yet, very reluctantly, have a huge responsibility and power, which forces them to decide on the death of their children and their elders.
Decide who undertakes the journey through the desert for weeks with little food or water, exposed to attack by hyenas and armed militias. Deciding which child is more likely to arrive alive to the refugee camps. A superhuman power in the hands of a humble people. The same power that allows them to move forward after seeing their children and relatives to die on the road. And despite this immense power, can do nothing when, after the hardship of the road, having reached the goal, as in a dream, it vanishes in their hands the lives of children who managed to arrive. Exhausted, dying. The sad toll that pay those who have nothing and need everything.
Facing certain death, fear of losing their lives, is perhaps the greatest fear of human being.
Millions of people in the Horn of Africa are faced daily with their fears and harshly survive without losing hope of winning the battle to the death. That is their power. That is their lesson to the rest of the world.
People in rich countries also flee and hide from their fears. Fear of a reality too complex and hard to face it. The fear of losing their privileges. Fear of an empty and meaningless life. Escape those fears also requires making decisions, choosing among alternatives. Alternatives of life, not of death. Look the other way, build walls, imagining threats, build prejudices, consuming without measure. Human responses that increase the inequality gap. There is still hope, we are taught daily by millions of people living in poverty thresholds. Just have to make the right decisions.
Live without being ashamed of a privileged life. Die without regret not having done anything by the underprivileged.
.
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