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Our people are in deeper suffering:
Somali refugees: No food to break Ramadan fast
Extravagant dinners to break fast unthinkable this year for most Somalis
DADAAB, Kenya — As the Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins, Faduma Aden is fasting all day even though she doesn't have enough food to celebrate with a sundown feast. The Somali mother of three, who fled starvation in her homeland, says she fasts because she fears God.
In a Ramadan statement Monday, President Barack Obama said fasting can be used to "increase spirituality, discipline, and consciousness of God's mercy." Obama said now is a time for the world to come together to support famine relief efforts.
"The heartbreaking accounts of lost lives and the images of families and children in Somalia and the Horn of Africa struggling to survive remind us of our common humanity and compel us to act," Obama said.
Some in the communities around the Dadaab refugee camp are stepping forward to help. At the Dagahaley refugee camp, part of the larger Dadaab camps, three distribution centers run by local elders provide food and money each day for more than 1,000 families and individuals.
Click link to view video report:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4397763...t/somali-refugees-no-food-break-ramadan-fast/
A man feeds his child Monday at a field hospital run by the International Rescue Committee in Dadaab, Kenya.
Peace In,
Our people are in deeper suffering:
Somali refugees: No food to break Ramadan fast
Extravagant dinners to break fast unthinkable this year for most Somalis
DADAAB, Kenya — As the Islamic holy month of Ramadan begins, Faduma Aden is fasting all day even though she doesn't have enough food to celebrate with a sundown feast. The Somali mother of three, who fled starvation in her homeland, says she fasts because she fears God.
In a Ramadan statement Monday, President Barack Obama said fasting can be used to "increase spirituality, discipline, and consciousness of God's mercy." Obama said now is a time for the world to come together to support famine relief efforts.
"The heartbreaking accounts of lost lives and the images of families and children in Somalia and the Horn of Africa struggling to survive remind us of our common humanity and compel us to act," Obama said.
Some in the communities around the Dadaab refugee camp are stepping forward to help. At the Dagahaley refugee camp, part of the larger Dadaab camps, three distribution centers run by local elders provide food and money each day for more than 1,000 families and individuals.
Click link to view video report:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4397763...t/somali-refugees-no-food-break-ramadan-fast/
A man feeds his child Monday at a field hospital run by the International Rescue Committee in Dadaab, Kenya.
Peace In,