By : BBC
Date published: November 15 2011, Date accessed: November 15 2011
In a refugee camp placed in Kenya, where people from Somali who are fleeing conflicts in their own country had found home, Cholera breaks out. It is believed that the new comers brought the disease in and now the disease is spreading. Near the camp, treatment centers are being put up to cure and treat cholera. Some of the refugees may have had unsafe water from the flooding that had taken place which caused the patients to worsen. The drought as it is being seen by many citizens is the worst case, in the last 60 years. The country affected most by the drought is Somalia. Many citizens are trying to escape, find shelter not just because of the drought but also because of an unstable government. While because of the cholera break out less people are showing up in Kenyan refugee camps citizens do not; some are finding a home in Ethiopia where more camps are being set up.
It is sad to see that people who do not have anywhere to stay are being hit by such diseases. Citizens of Somalia do not have a stable government at the moment, and having a drought in the country makes situations worse. A person can handle only so much. To be loaded with a hundred things to worry about such as finding food, shelter and not dying can cause chaos. This may affect a persons health as well as emotional well being. I can only imagine what the people in Somalia might be going through. If a person close to you gets sick, or has hard time dealing with some problems, it hurts you to see them go through such pain. You feel useless, you want to help them but you don' t know how. Living in another part of the world I am so self observed that. I feel like my life sucks. But little do I ever think about others in this world, and what they might be going through.
Vocab
Abduction
last month after the abduction of two aid workers.
Carrying someone away without their will
He abducted his mother away from the the murderer she thought she fell in love with.
Exacerbated
It says the situation has been exacerbated by the outbreak of the waterborne disease.
To make more violent. from latin exacerbatus harsh bitter
She quickly grew silence, once she heard the exacerbated sound of the horn.
Incursion
Kenya's incursion has contributed to a slowing in flow of Somalis to Dadaab,
A hostile entrance into a territory. from the latin word incursion
The humans incursion into the vampire territory outraged the blood sucking creatures.
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