Making a Difference
There are thousands of displaced people around the globe
today and many of these people are children. 2012 has the most displaced people
around the world since the 1990s. This means there are now 43.3m people
forcibly displaced around the world - including: 27.1m internally displaced
people (IDP) and 15.6m refugees”(The
Guardian). In Africa the problem is severe. 60,000 people have fled
from the Democratic Republic of the Congo because rebel forces were taking over
and murdering the citizens. Most of them have lost their families and have
nowhere to go except into refugee camps. One of these people is Baruani Ndume,
a boy who was only 12 years old when this happened. He wanted to make a
difference and help the other refugee children with their problems and
challenges, so he creates a radio station to try to help them and give them
hope and happiness.
Baruani
creates a radio station and gives the opportunity to many of the children in
the camps with similar concerns to talk about their problems and challenges
that they have faced. Baruani cares and wants to make a difference in
the lives of others who struggle. Baruani works to help these children in a
very special way...he has succeeded in setting up a radio programme in which he
talks about problems and challenges with his peer refugee children” (Children’s
Peace Prize). Baruani worked hard and succeeded to make a
radio station that the people in the refugee camps can share their problems and
challenges. Baruani has a great ideas to help other people. He does not just
feel sorry for himself but is proactive in helping other to have a better life.
He fled the country because the rebels were
still there. While fleeing the country, he lost his parents and ended up in the
Nyarugusu refugee camp in Tanzania. Besides listening to others concerns
and problems and giving them a voice on the radio, he also decides to try and
make a difference by hearing about those who have also lost their parents or
loved ones and then helping them to reunite with them.
Barunai
tries really hard to get his peers and other people to be reunited with their
family. “On his show, he tries to reunite children and parents who have become
separated while escaping from DR Congo” (Childrens
peace prize). Baruani tries hard to get the refugee children
reunited with their families. By being reunited the children will be safer,
happier and more likely to live a better life. They won’t have to struggle
trying to survive and get their basic needs met on their own. This does not
mean that life will be simple but with family they will have a better chance.
Baruani doesn’t want them to have to go through what he went through. This
radio station was very successful with several countries nearby as they picked
up the broadcast and it made it more popular and useful to others. ”The programme has been highly successful and is now
broadcast in DR Congo, Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda. Thanks to this. many
children have been reunited with their families” (Children
peace prize) Baruani has made a big change for many refugee
children and their families. Thanks to his radio station, more of the kids in
the refugee camps have been reunited with loved ones and are living a better
life.
Baruani
continues to help refugee children with their problems and challenges to try
and make a difference. Baruani hopes that people will start to think about the
problems in refugee camps and with displaced people and is showing them by
doing something about it. By being an example to others, by showing that he
cares and by spreading his talents around Africa and the world he is making a
difference. Even if it is something small it can make a difference between to
bettering a life. Baruani Ndume is a young man who is making a difference in
the lives of other people.
