Refugee texts appeal directly to UN Food Programme’s PR chap
Link: Guardian Unlimited | Special reports | ‘You must help’.
Go straight to the top. That’s what one Somali refugee did…
The text message was short and to the point: “My name is Mohammed Sokor, writing to you from Dagahaley refugee camp in Dadaab. Dear Sir, there is an alarming issue here. People are given too few kilogrammes of food. You must help.”
The arrival of that text made two worlds collide. The sender was a refugee in a drought-plagued camp in Kenya. The recipient was sitting in the London office of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), in the comfort of the industrialised world where hunger and poverty are a distant problem.
I trust that Greg passed the message on to the right folk to action the issue.
