World Refugee Day

[Adriana]

Time to stop and think what we can do to make people's lives better.

[Kon]

Get rid of politicians,warlords and others who cause the suffering of many a people.Everybody deserves a standard life with a future unfortunatley words are simple but actions are harder.

[Mille]

You said the words, Kon.

[Adriana]

An old friend of mine was the UN's humanitarian officer in Cyprus and was later in Rwanda during the atrocities of the genocide and he doesn't have a good thing to say about politicians of any description.

[Richard]

He was obviously a man of sense and vision.

[Adriana]

The politicians were blathering on about 'collateral damage' and other dehumanising euphemisms while he was looking after thousands of traumatised refugees, children who had seen their parents being hacked to death with machetes and the kind of stuff that politicians in ivory towers really don't want to see or know about at first hand.
Brave man. But it has cost him his health.

[Mille]

Some time ago my youngest son came home from school looking real sad.
He and some mates had been playing "soldiers" with plastic guns and riffles.
One of the older girls started crying, and hid in the "girls room".

He asked me why she behaved like that, if he had done something wrong?

The girl and her family comes from Somalia and have seen things most of us only see on the News!

They know what it is like to starve, to walk miles and miles to get water, food, watch family members die due to lack of medical help, they' ve suffered!

Son and I had a long talk about the differences and the imbalance of this world.

I hope he and the rest of the kids today will make this world a better place in the future!

[Adriana]

Have you read Khaled Hosseini's 'The Kite Runner'?

It should be required high school reading world wide.

[Mille]

Adriana, I'll order it via our local Library later today!!

Just read the summary online and it appears good.

Thanks.