Humanitarian Crisis in the Democratic Republic of Congo

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Humanitarian Crisis in the Democratic Republic of
Congo
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Basic Facts

• Over 1,000 people a day are dying.
• Diseases such as malaria, cholera and typhoid are
  destroying entire families and refugee camps.
• Over 4,000,000 people have died as result of the
  militias and the army within the Democratic
  Republic of Congo.

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Many have been forced to leave their homes

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They live in refugee camps

• http//www.ssn.flinders.edu.au/global/africa/johfl
  ood/Bukavu20refugees.jpg
• http//www.medair.org/pictures/pic_medair_congo_re
  fugee.jpg

How would it feel to live in any of these places?


How do you think the people feel having to live
in such places?
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With little or no food and water
How would you feel to only eat every two or three
days or just one day a week?

• http//news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1110000/images/_1114
  255_refugees300.jpg
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How important is clean water? Would you drink
unclean water if you knew it would make you sick?

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Most of the victims are children
What do these pictures say to you?
What is one word you would use to describe these
children?
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categoryId5
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Bibliography

• Congo (DR) General Situation. Medair.org. July
  6, 2006. http//www.medair.org/pictures/pic_m
  edair_congo_refugee.jpg
• Congolese Facing Malnutrition BBC.com. Jan 12,
  2001. July 6, 2006.
  http//news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1110000/images/_1114
  255_refugees300.jpg
• Dont Forget Africas Hungry, Warns WFP.
  WFP.org. July 6, 2006. http//www.wfp.org/new
  sroom/img/inbrief/050214_gusco_3.jpg
• Finding Enough to Eat. Refugeecamp.org. July 6,
  2006.
• http//www.refugeecamp.org/images/placards/fo
  od/4-1.jpg

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Bibliography

• Genocides, Politicides, and Other Mass Murder
  Since 1945, With Stages in 2005.
  Genocidewatch.org. 2005. July 6, 2006.
• http//www.genocidewatch.org/genocidetable2005
  .htm
• Human Rights Watch The Curse of Gold. HRW.org.
  2003. July 6, 2006. http//hrw.org/photos/2005/drc
  /curse/images/drc9.jpg
• UN Lack of Action in Bukavu. July 6, 2006.
  http//www.ssn.flinders.edu.au/global/africa/johfl
  ood/Bukavu20refugees.jpg
• UNrefugees.org July 6, 2006.
  http//www.unrefugees.org/usaforunhcr/uploadedimag
  es/global20appeal20congo20school(1).jpg