 |
|
| Author |
 Topic  |
|
|
concort
365 Posts |
 Posted - 12 Aug 2011 : 18:56:47
|
This is very sad and distressing. Just imagine a parent having to choose to move on without his/her child or knowing that they are going to die. What is the world doing to help? May Allah have mercy on the souls of the deceased. Ameen!
Wardo's choice: Famine forces mothers to decide which child lives and which dies.
Wardo Mohamud Yusuf walked for two weeks with her one-year-old daughter on her back and her four-year-old son at her side to flee Somalia's drought and famine.
When the boy collapsed near the end of the journey, she poured some of the little water she had on his head to cool him, but he was unconscious and could not drink.
She asked other families travelling with them for help, but none stopped, fearful for their own survival.
I have never faced such a dilemma in my life, Yusuf said.
Now I'm reliving the pain of abandoning my child. I wake up at night to think about him. I feel terrified whenever I see a son of his age.
Dr. John Kivelenge, a mental health officer for the International Rescue Committee at Dadaab emphasizes the extreme duress Somali mothers and fathers are facing.
It is a normal reaction to an abnormal situation. They can't sit down and wait to die together, he said.
But after a month, they will suffer post-traumatic stress disorder, which means they will have flashbacks and nightmares.
The picture of the children they abandoned behind will come back to them and haunt them, he said.
They will also have poor sleep and social problems.
The United States estimates that more than 29,000 Somali children under age five have died in the famine in the last three months.
An unknown number too weak to walk farther have been abandoned on the sandy trek to help after food and water supplies ran out.
Faduma Sakow Abdullahi, a 29-year-old widow, attempted the journey to Dadaab with her baby and other children ages 5, 4, 3 and 2. A day before she reached the refugee camp, her 4-year-old daughter and 5-year-old son wouldn't wake up after a brief rest.
Abdullahi said she did not want to 'waste' the little water she had in a 5-liter container on dying children when the little ones needed it.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2025054/Somali-famine-kills-30k-age-5-Children-left-die-parents.html#ixzz1UpqeMzpg
|
As Salamu Alaikum Waramatullah Wabarakatu |
Edited by - concort on 12 Aug 2011 19:09:03 |
|
| |
Topic |
|
|
|
| Bantaba in Cyberspace |
© 2005-2024 Nijii |
 |
|
|
Topic Locked
