Street Children (Eritrea)

The German newspaper “Dein Spiegel” says that a team of British and Indian scientists now built a robot that fetches water. You see, in India and many African countries children often can’t get to school or don’t get there in time, because they’ve got to walk miles to fetch litres of water for their family. Donating this robot to villages in countries like these probably would help these children so that they wouldn’t have to spend so much time on fetching water. Then they would have more time to learn or go to school.

“Domradio” says that the human aid-organisation “CARE” now publicly criticized media worldwide for ignoring some crisis in this world even though they were and still are responsible for the death of many people:
>North Korea was an example they talked about. Last year this country faced a flood and is still facing a famine and yet most people don’t even know about that.
>Also Eritrea was mentioned that despite still facing a famine caused by an ongoing drought is hardly mentioned by the media.

The German aid organisation “GfbV” says that Israel is going to send back thousands of refugees from Eritrea and Sudan. “GfbV” says however that this is clearly against the Refugee Convention of Genf.

According to “Tagesschau” the biggest problem medical aid-organizations have with Eritrea is the refugees. They try to make nurses and doctors out of citizens who before that were rather uneducated only to later hear that these people thought they could use their new working-skills for better-paid jobs in the EU. Thus they become refugees and in many cases are lost at sea. Some may make it to Europe, but the result is the same: Their country remains as poor as ever, because it lacks skilled workers and whole families or even communities need to rearrange themselves with one member less.

“Tagesschau” on September 14th about Eritrea: One of the many problems Eritrea has is – apart from the fact that due to the independence war decades ago there now are two whole generations of people who never got to start a real apprenticeship – that its dictator isolates this state from neighboring countries which of course is bad for the economy as this also prevents import and export of goods. They even gave examples of the extreme poverty these measurements lead to. In Germany nobody could survive by building things out of old gadgets – like building filters out of old cans that someone threw away – and then selling it to a price of about 1 US-dollar. The reporter of “Tagesschau” however had footage and recorded interviews that came from many different Eritreans who have to earn their living this way. They even say that – contrary to how things go like in Germany – what these traders earn this way is enough to get by in Eritrea, which means that the whole economy of Eritrea must be affected by extreme poverty.
However said interviews also show that the citizens of Eritrea have problems other than that: Since 1993 the police of Eritrea did about 10.000 politically-motivated arrestings, but still – despite the fact that Eritrean prisons are known to be crowded, dark and with little to no hygiene – the fear of deportation for reasons other than that is even bigger – or to say it in the words of one of the refugees interviewed for this report “They can come at any time to bring you to the military” in order to make you serve as a soldier. They even force children – which means child-laborers – and elder people into the military and sometimes even execute you if you try to flee for example.
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Re-upload: According to the website where I found it, this photo shows Eritrean street children. If you want to know more about them and about an organisation that helps them, you definetly should visit this website “http://www.streetkids.org/”.