(Photo Source: Common dreams website)
Jadim
is a refugee. That is what the international organizations call her. The
country hosting her is expected to feed her, protect her and make sure she is
comfortable until her home country has some amount of peace. She gets ‘aid’ in
terms of food, clothes, a blanket and a shelter. She has a right to get them.
Moreover she is now pregnant, so she is feeding for two people. She sees people
coming in and out, she heard they are called donors. Every time she sees the
stream of vehicles she has to ensure her shelter is clean and she puts on a
smile. They are the ones responsible for her stay there and they need to feel
they are doing something. It also means extra rations that day, so of course
she will put on her best smile.
Jadim
has lived in the camp for 2 years now. Despite all the niceties mentioned
above, she constantly feels she was better at home, but since she lost her
husband and two children to the war, she decided to run. She thought she would
be safe. She had to live to make sure their memories are still alive. As for
her pregnancy, only she know whose it is. They were so many that night she will
have to wait to see the baby’s face to know who the father is. She had only
gone to ask for an extra ration for the old woman she lives with, but got more
than she had asked for. She did not complain, who was she going to complain to?
She
could not complain because this was the third camp she has been for the two
years of her ‘refugeeing’. Those people have the power to return her home as a
threat to ‘National Peace’. The house she got was a privilege because one of
them felt ‘bad’, otherwise her house was a pile of sticks, twigs and nylon
paper put together to form a ‘shelter’.
Now
another problem has risen. The host country has become tired of giving her and
her fellow refugees ‘free things’. The war is still going on, but nobody cares
for a refugee.
(Photo Source: Slough refugee support Website)
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