I found this video on youtube.com and I thought it was an incredibly eye-opening story. Angelina Jolie, an american actress, speaks at the Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting about refugees, specifically about the education of child refugees. She tells a truly heart- wrenching story about two boys who in any other situation could have been well educated human beings. Yet this video sheds light on more than just the need for the education of refugees, it gets to the heart of the living conditions that some of these people are forced to deal with. She describes a man who was beaten and burned and could not seek medical aid in a neighboring country, so now he is forced to be treated by a young boy friend of his, who is decent enough to change his bandages each day. This boy is able to buy bandages because he sells tissues on the street, thats right he has to sell tissues in order to provide for himself and his friend. A different aspect of refugees is shown in this video, and that is the population of refugees that live outside of, or cannot get into, refugee camps.
Clinton Global Initiative 2007: Angelina Jolie Makes Impassioned Plea for Refugees. Perf. Angelina Jolie. Youtube.com. .
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