Photograph: Salgado, Sebastiao. Photograph. "Migrations: Humanity in Transition [The Human Family Around the World]." Legends Online. PDN and Kodak Professional, n.d. Web. 3 Feb. 2010.
The United Nations ran camps in Kenya in which youth was separated from their families and sent to the refugee camps. They went to these camps to avoid fighting in a civil war. I can't imagine having to do that. It basically was a lose, lose situation for them because fighting in a war isn't any better than having to stay in a refugee camp. I'm sure none of them wanted to be there and were counting down they days to when they could be reunited with their families.
There are currently refugee camps still in Kenya. The Huffington Post, an online newspaper, said, "[the camps] currently play host to at least 320,000 refugees, from Kakuma camp in the drought-prone northwest to the massively overcrowded Dadaab camp in the east. Men, women, and children all try to go about their daily lives, coping with cramped living conditions, water shortages and the grinding drudgery of having your independence taken away." Later in the article, it says that the camps were actually made for only 90,000. That means that there are currently more than 3 times as many refugees there. I'm sure, it's a lot more cramped than we can probably imagine. Then, adding shortages of water makes life a lot harder than any of us could even imagine. These camps run by the UK "estimate that it will need around $91 million this year to improve conditions for existing refugees"(Offer).
Salgado, Sebastiao. Photograph. "Migrations: Humanity in Transition [The Human Family Around the World]." Legends Online. PDN and Kodak Professional n.d. Web. 3 Feb. 2010.
When I look at this picture all I can think about is how lucky I am to live where I live and to have everything I have. I like how you said for these youth it is a lose, lose situation because to me, living in an over crowded refugee camp does not sound any more appealing than fighting in a war. I can't believe that the refugee camps really are overcrowded up to three times more than they can hold. That just makes me feel so bad for all of those people who are forced to live there because they have no where else to go. I really like the way Salgado captures the struggling youth in this picture. It is heartbreaking.
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