“13.5 million people in Syria need humanitarian assistance due to a violent civil war that began in 2011.” (Syrian Refugee Crisis FAQ: What You Need to Know) More than half of the Syrian population has either been killed or was forced to leave because of the great risk. Even when they do find a way to leave the country, it is hard for them to build new lives there. In Syria, there are many people dying, and not just because of the war. After they finally get to a refugee camp, the refugees still are not safe. “Children affected by the Syrian conflict are at risk of becoming ill, malnourished, abused or exploited.” (Syrian Refugee Crisis FAQ: What You Need to Know). Even after they are in a refugee camp, they are exposed to many things, such as diseases. While being in a camp, you are risking catching one of these diseases because in most camps the diseases spread like wildfire.
Here are some of the diseases that tend to spread around the camps:
- Measles
- Polio
- Tuberculosis
- Hepatitis
- Cutaneous
- Mucocutaneous
- And More
Along with these Diseases, there are also needs that aren’t being met which causes other problems within the camps. They lack clean drinking water, food, and good health care and places to get it. Not only do they need the clean water, food, etc, they also need things things like mental care, or places for the children to play and learn. What do we do in situations like these? We need to find a way to help these people that almost everyone can agree upon. They are people who are in trouble, and have no where to go so we need to help them in some way. We can’t just take them all out of their country and send them somewhere else, and we certainly can’t just leave this alone, so what do we do?
I have composed a plan to help our fellow people and hopefully everyone will agree with my solution. One of the reasons why so many people die after getting to the camps is because the camps are so unsanitary. I believe that we should set up ‘schools’ where we teach the people there how to make their surroundings more livable, and clean, even with so many people living there. We can also bring them out of the country and divide them between all the others. There are about 18,906,907 living in Syria now, and 233 other countries. If we divide them into the countries based on population, we can hopefully find a home for most, if not all the refugees. Once we figure out where they are headed, we will teach them all about their destination, which was another big problem. We can send them to the other countries, but they need to know how to live there too. Before they head to where they are going, we will teach them how to live there, and what people act like in the country.
Although we want to send the refugees to send them to the countries, and get them out of their current situations, a lot of people don’t want them coming because of the chance of them not being who they say they are. Because their countries have been destroyed, none of them have any papers to prove who they are. This is where the refugee’s lives can be put in danger, because people are afraid that the person that they’re taking into their country isn’t actually a refugee. It could be that one of the terrorists decide to get into another country and try and harm them while they were trying to help people. This is why there are so many people apposed to taking refugees in, because they don’t want to risk their lives to save others. This is why I suggested the schools, because they need to stay safe while they are stuck there.
“I can’t take this, look at my hands, I have blisters, I am starving. Why won’t they feed us more?” (Rena’s Promise). The book, Rena’s Promise, is about two sisters who survived the Holocaust together. This can relate to the crisis because both are mass murders that need and needed to be stopped. Luckily the refugees aren’t being killed in the camps, but they’re still dying, just in a different way. If we can find a way to help them, we can save millions of lives. Help your fellow man and help us build schools for them to learn, help them escape the horrors that they live in, and help them live.
Recommended books:
- Rena’s Promise
- A Long Way Gone
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