World Emergency Relief
This is the blog of World Emergency Relief (WER), a leading international relief and development organisation which works to feed and protect poor children all over the world. WER currently supports more than 30 projects, including orphanages, healthcare and education, in 15 countries across Africa, Asia, Eastern Europe, Central America and the Caribbean Basin.
On the run in Kenya: An orphan's story
Author: World Emergency Relief
"They cut my mother to pieces because of an election."
Winnie Njeri is 13 and comes from Kenya's Rift Valley province. In 2007, after disputed elections, violence erupted across the country leaving an estimated 1,000 dead and 260,000 uprooted. This is Winnie's story:
My name is Winnie and until 2 years ago I had a very good life. I was lucky to be born to a good family. My parents worked hard and were wealthy. I went to the best school in the village, I ate the best food and I had never in my life been hungry. At that time I thought that my life was normal and that it would always be this way.
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Author: World Emergency Relief
"They cut my mother to pieces because of an election."
Winnie Njeri is 13 and comes from Kenya's Rift Valley province. In 2007, after disputed elections, violence erupted across the country leaving an estimated 1,000 dead and 260,000 uprooted. This is Winnie's story:
My name is Winnie and until 2 years ago I had a very good life. I was lucky to be born to a good family. My parents worked hard and were wealthy. I went to the best school in the village, I ate the best food and I had never in my life been hungry. At that time I thought that my life was normal and that it would always be this way.
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Fleeing from genocide in Burundi
Author: World Emergency Relief
By Ben Carter In 1994 Nyangoma Esperance and her six children fled their home near the Burundi capital. They feared murder at the hands of their own neighbours. For 15 years she has worked hard to build a new life for her family just 6km away but she still dreams of going back.
Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world with some 80 percent of its population living on less than $1 a day. Like most Burundians, Nyangoma supported her family through farming. She lived with her six children and her father in a place called Gakunrwe, near the capital city, Bujumbura.
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Author: World Emergency Relief
By Ben Carter In 1994 Nyangoma Esperance and her six children fled their home near the Burundi capital. They feared murder at the hands of their own neighbours. For 15 years she has worked hard to build a new life for her family just 6km away but she still dreams of going back.
Burundi is one of the poorest countries in the world with some 80 percent of its population living on less than $1 a day. Like most Burundians, Nyangoma supported her family through farming. She lived with her six children and her father in a place called Gakunrwe, near the capital city, Bujumbura.
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