'My parents are not alive. I don’t want to think about them again because it reminds me of terrible things.' Nearly 40,000 children from South Sudan are living in refugee camps in Ethiopia. Our reporter Omar_Dabbagh travelled to meet some of them.
Nyamouch claims her carers, who are also refugees, often exacerbate the trauma."They tell me 'you’re good for nothing, we only take care of you, when will you find your parents, all of your parents are dead', and I feel like I don’t want to live anymore. But I usually keep quiet."There aren’t enough doctors, there aren’t enough teachers, only half the refugees have adequate shelter, the food rations are below the required daily intake, water is in diminishing supply.
Yet, despite the mountain of problems, Maria Dombaxi from aid agency the UNHCR, says unaccompanied child refugees continue to arrive at the camps from South Sudan. “One of the biggest issues, I would say is, because these kids cross the border by themselves, so they do find themselves alone here," she says.
"One of the things we need, as the UNHCR, is staffing to help, for social workers, and to help these kids to cope with what they saw in South Sudan.”
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