World Refugee Week - Angelina Jolie visit Kenya

UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie

 meets children and siblings of 

vulnerable female refugees in Nairobi.

© UNHCR/Mark Henley

Tuesday, 20 June
World Refugee Day 2017
This is World Refugees week...

Angelina Jolie calls for reflection on the “pain and suffering” of refugee children during a visit to a centre for adolescent girls in Nairobi on World Refugee Day.

"This not about sharing a burden. It is about sharing a global responsibility, based not only the broad idea of our common humanity but also on the very specific obligations of international law. The root problems are war and hatred, not people who flee; refugees are among the first victims of terrorism." — UN Secretary-General, António Guterres

Jolie met about 200 refugee girls, who are unaccompanied or separated from their parents and are now living in the Heshima Kenya Safe House in the Kenyan capital, where they participate in a girls’ empowerment programme.

“Not only have they had to flee extreme violence or persecution, lost everything and witnessed the death of family members, but they have also had to face so much abuse and intolerance and hardship.”

“How we treat them is a measure of our humanity as nations.” - Please show some some love not only to the refugees but also the destitute around you. One Love...