Author: nokeakuahawaiiedu

I believe that we shouldn’t just sit back and relax while this crisis is occurring. I would suggest that we should spread them out around the world that has enough resources to sustain it’s people and a certain amount of refugees, but in order for their stay they should do labor and earn their keep. I also think that each Country should send in some military forces to deal with this issue so that the Syrian people can return and start rebuilding because anything even if it is just a little help is better than nothing. If we were in this situation I believe we would want help also so I think that we should lend a hand just in case we need help in the future.

Close your eye’s and imagine screaming, gun fire, bombs exploding, building crumbling down and people crying now open your eyes. Do you think it’s over? Well so did these young children but now they are scarred. Not just from the violence but because they are risking their lives day by day. These children are still facing violence even as we speak they are being abused physically mostly by their fathers. Their suffering doesn’t end they have witnessed multiple deaths of friends and families and say the violence take away everything they cared about even the places they felt most safe.

The main issue of this thesis is about Syrian refugee children and all they have to endure. I am supportive of this thesis because I am also writing about the Syrian refugee children and what they have been through and even still going through. I know a lot about this issue because I have done a lot of research about this topic so I am well informed. I don’t think that I can care more about this issue because I am fully invested in this topic and I also want more people to be well informed and I think the author has the right idea.

1. “This article talks about the invisible scars that are left on the children during this time”

In the article “Invisible Wounds” it talks about the horrific scars that are left in the children’s minds and hearts. A teacher said “The children are psychologically crushed and tired. When we do activities like singing with them, they don’t respond at all. They don’t laugh like they would normally. They draw images of children being butchered in the war, or tanks, or the siege and the lack of food.” It’s heartbreaking to hear that a child’s future and life was taken from them because of violence and n matter what we people do or say they can’t unsee what they have seen or forget what they went through.

These children have witnessed countless deaths! They have seen their homes, schools and hospitals bombed and they have seen people even their families being crushed by the debris of the buildings as they came tumbling down. These kids are constantly living in fear, wondering if they will live till the next day or die due to lack of medicine, food and water. Statistics show that 71% of kids have PTSD, 51% turns to drugs in order to cope with their suffering, 59% of kids joined armed groups and 48% of kids lost the ability to talk. There are so much more statistics about what happened to these children the examples I just displayed was just the tip of the iceberg. I can’t even begin to understand what these children have been through and to be honest it is kind of disgusting to know that all these people and the especially the children’s lives have been ruined to due to violent acts. The article main focus is to inform people and make them aware of this situation and to have a better understanding that this is actually happening to these kids.

1. “This article talks about the Syrian refugee children”

In another article by “Ucef USA” it talks about the intense living environment for children and the suffering they have to go through on a daily basis. According to the article there is limited space for refugees let alone families, no access to any fresh water, multiple families are living together and their isn’t really an education system in place there for families and children are selling everything they have for scraps of food in order to get by. Due to the limited resources majority of kids are fending for themselves so some kids are doing hard labor to try and get food or water but a lot of other kids are joining gangs or stealing in order to survive there for violence is increasing.

The age of marriage is supposed to be 16 but a bunch of families are settling for 13 sometimes even younger so that their kids can get into other families that might be better off than they originally are. If that not bad enough there is no health care so many children are getting sick, it could be many things such as drinking dirty water, starving, not showering, eating spoiled food or even just diseases being passed from person to person the possibilities are endless and these refugees and children just can’t catch a break. These kids have seen things that majority of us won’t see in a lifetime, they had their homes and sometimes even their families taken from them a feeling that not everyone knows and wishes they won’t.

1. “This source is about stranded Syrian refugee camps and living situations”

In the article published by the “New York Times” it talks about the refugees and their living situations. I decided to put this in my paper because I can tie this with violence as well. According to the “New York Times” there is over 660,000 registered refugees this doesn’t include the non registered or the ones who are still making their way to other camps. Statistics show that out of all the refugees fleeing for safety around 50% of them are children. Children are making the journey in order to seek safety in Jordan through all they intense heat and cold nights they are striving to try and find a better life than the one they are living now due to the violence that is occurring in their homes.

According to the article Jordan was not at all helping and said “The situation is grim, and we know more people are on their way” even after stating that it is easy to tell they aren’t supporting the refugees they in fact did the opposite and sent their military to the borders and started to drive away the children and their families. Even knowing what the children and their families witnessed and sacrificed in order to survive they used more violence from their military forces to drive them away. The families were to scared to go back home so they all ended up sleeping outside of Jordan in the intense weather hoping that they would be saved but the next morning more than 5 children didn’t make it sources say they were stung to death by scorpions. When will their suffering stop? Who will help them? How much kids and families have to die for people to notice the problem?

1. “This article is about refugee children being caught up in the violence”

In the article from “unicef USA” it talks about a lot of the struggles that the Syrian refugees are going through because of all the violence that is happening around them but it’s main focus is talking about the children and their living environment and the violence they are facing on a daily basis.

For kids certain places make you feel safe and secure such as homes, schools, playgrounds, hospitals or even parks but that is not the case here statistics show that 13.1 million children have witnessed violence or attacks on these places leaving them heartbroken and devastated. They place where they can act their age and have fun was taken from them because of violence and now they can never have that secure feeling of being safe again. The truth is no one is safe now statistics show that in December of last year around 10,000 children died because of the violence. These violence caused many families to leave and run away according to the “World Health Organization” families fled for a camp to the North East it sounds like a good plan but not if everyone has the same idea. So many people fled their mostly women and children but due to the lack of tents families were forced to sleep outside in the cold weather and that exposure claimed the lives of so much innocent children who tried to run away so they wouldn’t perish. It’s hard to hear about all these kids struggling for survival but then dying because of what the violence forced them to do. It isn’t right for the families that have so seek asylum but it’s even worse to strip a child of their childhood let alone their life as well.

For my bibliography I have decided to talk about the refugee children and what they are going through but more specifically the violence that is occurring and affecting them not from other countries but from their fellow refugees. I decided on this topic because I wanted to appeal to the readers hearts and show them the pain and suffering these children are going through.

1. “This article is about multiple things but mostly about refugee violence”

According to the article “Shattered Lives” majority of the violence that is occurring in the refugee camps is due to domestics. Statistics show that male spouses are the number one perpetrators with a 37%, second would be fathers or caregivers with 27%, tied for third is female spouses and mothers with 8% and so on so forth. It also shows us a chart of where these violent actions take place. The top spot for where violent actions take place is in home tents where people can’t witness what is going on for girls it is 47% and boys with 23% the second most common place is in the showers or bathrooms 25% for girls and 19% for boys. If it’s not bad enough already being scared of going home to the place where you would think is the safest place their are also a bunch of other violence occurring in the camps such as gang formation and children associating with other armed groups. These kids are going through all this in order to survive but in the process they are being scarred and traumatized from all the things they went through or are facing at such a young age.

The direction I decided to take for my research paper has to deal with the children. I am wanting to understand what the children refugees are going through and what is happening to them. I chose to do this because I want my paper to appeal to people and open their eyes about what the children are going through so more people would feel like they want to help. If more people change their perspectives and actually open their eyes we all could accomplish so much more then turning a blind eye to the problem at hand.

I feel like it would be difficult to integrate to the US or Europe. I say this because we are far away and majority of the refugees travel by foot or sometimes boat and even if they were able to make it to either country its not a guarantee that they would be accepted in. It’s hard to watch as they face all these struggles and no one is really willing to take a lot of the refugees in because of their concerns for their own citizens. There is just so many refugees that are trying to seek asylum its gonna be hard for them to get into anywhere. My concerns are other countries aren’t really putting in an effort to help these people who are risking their lives for survival, what can we do to help stop this problem? or at least make it slightly better. Another concern I have is their family they are leaving them behind to try and find a better life but the woman and children are by themselves they are more prone to be attacked or robbed.