Tuesday, July 01, 2008

Timbuktu Comes to Djibo

12:14 am | Edit Post
Over the past three weeks much of my time has been spent working on the Tuareg migration here in Djibo, helping with aid distributions, feeding information to the UN and other NGOs, and working with ADRA ( www.adra.org ) in getting help to those who need it most. The more time I've spent working with the refugees the more complicated it seems to be. There is said to be approximately 1000 refugees in the Djibo area alone with more on their way. A large percentage of these are women and children and since their arrival two of these women have given birth following their four week journey to safety. One lady had to use someone else's makeshift tent to give birth in as she hadn't had time to construct anything of her own since reaching the refugee camp.

Over the last few weeks we have been able to get £3000 of aid to the most needy, but this will only last for a very short period of time. Unfortunately the Burkina government does not have any budget for this sort of emergency so we will just have to wait and see how the situation develops.

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