Choose: Flee or die. Refugee Day

Choose ; infinitive verb, according to the RAE: Choose, prefer someone or something for a purpose. We do it every day, very frequently, for banal topics, for important decisions, at work, on the bus, after school, at a traffic light, we spend the day choosing. But not everyone is faced with having to choose in the same situations, nor do the decisions you make have the same repercussions for everyone, no. There are those who decide on radical things: Flee or die. This past Saturday we commemorated World Refugee Day. Did you know that there are 51 million refugees in the world? Every 4 seconds a person is forced to leave their home. Refugees are people like you and me , people who choose. They are forced to choose between staying in their homes and dying or fleeing, fleeing armed conflicts, intolerance, human rights violations, hunger and poverty in search of a better option . When fleeing, they run risks such as detention, rape, torture and forced recruitment by armed groups.

With luck, they find a refugee camp and try to survive there. The camps can hold up to 400,000 people . People who need shelter, food, materials, electricity, drinking water... life in the fields is better but very hard . day-refugees When Marta arrived at the Mingkaman displaced persons camp, she found out that her husband had died. She doesn't know where Europe Mobile Number List the rest of her family is. She depends on the other women to lend her pots and pans when she wants to cook. 'When we fled, my house and everything in it burned down.' She arrived at the displaced persons camp with nothing. © Pablo Tosco / Oxfam Intermón Sahra, 35, fled Syria with her three children and husband and found refuge in the Shabreeha refugee camp in southern Lebanon. They left with nothing, leaving all her belongings behind. They arrived at the field with only the clothes they were wearing . In the countryside there are no bullets or bombs, but many people do not have enough to eat. Thanks to the humanitarian aid received, they have survived.



Now they can feel protected, they receive food, shelter and psychological support. Today there are up to 11.4 million refugees in Syria; 2 million in South Sudan and 860,000 in the Central African Republic . These are the highest figures since the Second World War . day-refugees Zaatari is the second largest refugee camp in the world after Dadaab in Kenya. Located in Jordan, it hosts some 85,000 people of the 3.8 million refugees who have fled the war in Syria. In Zaatari, refugees live in canvas tents or metal containers. © Sam Tarling / Oxfam Despite the seriousness of the situation it often remains invisible. The European Union (EU) and Oxfam Intermón have launched an international awareness campaign “ EUsaveLIVES - You save lives " so that we do not forget the millions of people from Syria, the Central African Republic and South Sudan who live in forced exile every day. The campaign "EUsaveLIVES - You save lives" has the support of well-known faces such as Miguel Bosé, Carlos Latre, Judith Masco, Ramon Lobo, Camilla Baresani, Diamond D'Alessio, Beatrice Masini, Ettore Mo, among others. When we have to choose at some point during the day, let us be aware that there are those who are choosing to flee or die, and let us not forget these people.