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Where would you go…
…if your country was no longer safe?
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What would you take…
…if you had 5 minutes to leave home?
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“When you leave, you grab your children and nothing else”.
“We lost all our belongings” Voice of a Bosnian refugee
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‘Panic & confusion’
‘Fear’
‘Loss’ ‘No where to go’
‘Anger’
‘Hope’
‘Sadness’
Flee for your lives’
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These are the thoughts of a refugee fleeing their country…
“No time for goodbyes, no time for mourning, no time for anything…just save your life and the lives of your children”.
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“It’s awful to leave your country. I left alone”.
“You never know when you are able to go back again and visit family and friends, your job – everything – all of your memories of life is there, you have to leave everything”.
An Iranian refugee
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The refugee journey…
An unimaginable experience
An unforgettable story
A courageous journey
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It takes courage to be a refugee…
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There were an estimated 10.3 million refugees worldwide at the beginning of 2003.
That means there is a new refugee every 21 seconds.
UNHCR, 2004
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Around 47% of persons under the United Nations Commission for Refugees are children under the
age of 18.
13 % are under the age of five.
UNHCR, 2005
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‘Refugee women, especially widows, single mothers and the elderly are a particularly vulnerable population.’
An estimated 80% of refugees are women and children.
UNHCR 2005
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The occupational disruption,
IMAGINE…
The environmental destruction,
And the psychosocial turmoil…
…EXPERIENCED BY A REFUGEE
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IMAGINE…
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The war zone….
“When it hits you, when somebody that you knew or someone your close to, or their family, or somebody had just died. Seeing that scene, that loss, it’s really unbearable. You understand war, and your forced to grow up sooner than most kids do”.
A yugoslavian refugee
remembering the war
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Homes destroyed.
‘Environmental upheaval’
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Livelihoods lost
‘Occupational disruption’
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A new makeshift home…a refugee camp
“I saw a lot of tents, people and crying. I always saw mean people in the army just looking. It was muddy, very, very sad”.
Words of a 13 year old Albanian refugee
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‘There are very poor drainage and sanitation systems. At times standing water is several feet deep’. Refugees International talking about the camps in Bangladesh in 2005
Poor living conditions
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‘Living conditions in the camps are seriously overcrowded’.
‘Families of 8 or 10 eat, sleep, and work in eight by ten-foot square rooms’.
Refugee International
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Food is scarce.
Cooking utensils basic.
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A lost childhood.
No time for play. Only survival.
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Loss of meaningful occupation… Living i
“The cave is difficult to live in. There is no water, no windows. We don’t want anything but just want to work to be busy, to be able to buy our food, to send our children to school, and to buy them things.
My son wants to study but because we have no money he has to spend the day collecting firewood”. Refugee International, 2002
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“In refugee camps, the sheer desperation provokes people to use creativity, stretching their imagination to bring relief to the morbid atmosphere…
…I remember some kids just playing, try’na have fun. We tried to make anything fun”.
Voice of a Bosnian refugee remembering growing up in a refugee camp
Desperate for meaningful occupation…
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After years of waiting in a refugee camp…
Average time spent in a refugee camp was 9 years in 1993. This increased to 17 years in 2003. UN Committee for Refugees, 2004
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At last, sanctuary.
A new life to build.
World Refugee Day, UNHCR, 2006
And a determination to start all over again in an unfamiliar land.
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But, the refugee journey does not end on
arrival to their host country…
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They are again faced with a myriad of…
OCCUPATIONAL
ENVIRONMENTAL and
PSYCHOSOCIAL CHALLENGES
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Language barriers
Unfamiliar household items
Unfamiliar education and government systems
Unrecognised work credentials
Mental health concerns
Ongoing impact of trauma
New cultural and social expectations
Lost profession
Economic constraints
Unfamiliar leisure opportunities
Lost loved ones
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Occupational opportunities
We know that adjustment and learning take place because people participate in meaningful activities.
Reese, 2005
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These meaningful activities are domestic, social, recreational, academic and vocational. They take
place within the local community in homes, school, and the workplace.
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Opportunities for learning do not occur if there is no sustained participation in rewarding activities.
These opportunities need to be created; they do not occur by chance.
Reese, 2005
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It is neither wealth or splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson
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It takes courage, understanding and compassion…
…To work with refugees
Occupational therapists can make a difference
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Photo credits to:
Refugees International
Sincere thanks to Refugees International for your generosity in sharing your valuable photographs. They are a wonderful tribute to the refugee population and inspire compassion and understanding in others.
Thank you
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Where would you go…
…if your country was no longer safe?
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What would you take…
…if you had 5 minutes to leave home?
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“When you leave, you grab your children and nothing else”.
“We lost all our belongings” Voice of a Bosnian refugee
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‘Panic & confusion’
‘Fear’
‘Loss’ ‘No where to go’
‘Anger’
‘Hope’
‘Sadness’
Flee for your lives’
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These are the thoughts of a refugee fleeing their country…
“No time for goodbyes, no time for mourning, no time for anything…just save your life and the lives of your children”.
![Page 40: Where would you go… …if your country was no longer safe?](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061305/5513f7975503462d418b4594/html5/thumbnails/40.jpg)
“It’s awful to leave your country. I left alone”.
“You never know when you are able to go back again and visit family and friends, your job – everything – all of your memories of life is there, you have to leave everything”.
An Iranian refugee
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The refugee journey…
An unimaginable experience
An unforgettable story
A courageous journey
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It takes courage to be a refugee…
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There were an estimated 10.3 million refugees worldwide at the beginning of 2003.
That means there is a new refugee every 21 seconds.
UNHCR, 2004
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Around 47% of persons under the United Nations Commission for Refugees are children under the
age of 18.
13 % are under the age of five.
UNHCR, 2005
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‘Refugee women, especially widows, single mothers and the elderly are a particularly vulnerable population.’
An estimated 80% of refugees are women and children.
UNHCR 2005
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The occupational disruption,
IMAGINE…
The environmental destruction,
And the psychosocial turmoil…
…EXPERIENCED BY A REFUGEE
![Page 47: Where would you go… …if your country was no longer safe?](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061305/5513f7975503462d418b4594/html5/thumbnails/47.jpg)
IMAGINE…
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The war zone….
“When it hits you, when somebody that you knew or someone your close to, or their family, or somebody had just died. Seeing that scene, that loss, it’s really unbearable. You understand war, and your forced to grow up sooner than most kids do”.
A yugoslavian refugee
remembering the war
![Page 49: Where would you go… …if your country was no longer safe?](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061305/5513f7975503462d418b4594/html5/thumbnails/49.jpg)
Homes destroyed.
‘Environmental upheaval’
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Livelihoods lost
‘Occupational disruption’
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A new makeshift home…a refugee camp
“I saw a lot of tents, people and crying. I always saw mean people in the army just looking. It was muddy, very, very sad”.
Words of a 13 year old Albanian refugee
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‘There are very poor drainage and sanitation systems. At times standing water is several feet deep’. Refugees International talking about the camps in Bangladesh in 2005
Poor living conditions
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‘Living conditions in the camps are seriously overcrowded’.
‘Families of 8 or 10 eat, sleep, and work in eight by ten-foot square rooms’.
Refugee International
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Food is scarce.
Cooking utensils basic.
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A lost childhood.
No time for play. Only survival.
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Loss of meaningful occupation… Living i
“The cave is difficult to live in. There is no water, no windows. We don’t want anything but just want to work to be busy, to be able to buy our food, to send our children to school, and to buy them things.
My son wants to study but because we have no money he has to spend the day collecting firewood”. Refugee International, 2002
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“In refugee camps, the sheer desperation provokes people to use creativity, stretching their imagination to bring relief to the morbid atmosphere…
…I remember some kids just playing, try’na have fun. We tried to make anything fun”.
Voice of a Bosnian refugee remembering growing up in a refugee camp
Desperate for meaningful occupation…
![Page 58: Where would you go… …if your country was no longer safe?](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061305/5513f7975503462d418b4594/html5/thumbnails/58.jpg)
After years of waiting in a refugee camp…
Average time spent in a refugee camp was 9 years in 1993. This increased to 17 years in 2003. UN Committee for Refugees, 2004
![Page 59: Where would you go… …if your country was no longer safe?](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061305/5513f7975503462d418b4594/html5/thumbnails/59.jpg)
At last, sanctuary.
A new life to build.
World Refugee Day, UNHCR, 2006
And a determination to start all over again in an unfamiliar land.
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But, the refugee journey does not end on
arrival to their host country…
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They are again faced with a myriad of…
OCCUPATIONAL
ENVIRONMENTAL and
PSYCHOSOCIAL CHALLENGES
![Page 62: Where would you go… …if your country was no longer safe?](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061305/5513f7975503462d418b4594/html5/thumbnails/62.jpg)
Language barriers
Unfamiliar household items
Unfamiliar education and government systems
Unrecognised work credentials
Mental health concerns
Ongoing impact of trauma
New cultural and social expectations
Lost profession
Economic constraints
Unfamiliar leisure opportunities
Lost loved ones
![Page 63: Where would you go… …if your country was no longer safe?](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061305/5513f7975503462d418b4594/html5/thumbnails/63.jpg)
Occupational opportunities
We know that adjustment and learning take place because people participate in meaningful activities.
Reese, 2005
![Page 64: Where would you go… …if your country was no longer safe?](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061305/5513f7975503462d418b4594/html5/thumbnails/64.jpg)
These meaningful activities are domestic, social, recreational, academic and vocational. They take
place within the local community in homes, school, and the workplace.
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Opportunities for learning do not occur if there is no sustained participation in rewarding activities.
These opportunities need to be created; they do not occur by chance.
Reese, 2005
![Page 66: Where would you go… …if your country was no longer safe?](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061305/5513f7975503462d418b4594/html5/thumbnails/66.jpg)
It is neither wealth or splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson
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It takes courage, understanding and compassion…
…To work with refugees
Occupational therapists can make a difference
![Page 68: Where would you go… …if your country was no longer safe?](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061305/5513f7975503462d418b4594/html5/thumbnails/68.jpg)
Photo credits to:
Refugees International
Sincere thanks to Refugees International for your generosity in sharing your valuable photographs. They are a wonderful tribute to the refugee population and inspire compassion and understanding in others.
Thank you
![Page 69: Where would you go… …if your country was no longer safe?](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061305/5513f7975503462d418b4594/html5/thumbnails/69.jpg)
Where would you go…
…if your country was no longer safe?
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What would you take…
…if you had 5 minutes to leave home?
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“When you leave, you grab your children and nothing else”.
“We lost all our belongings” Voice of a Bosnian refugee
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‘Panic & confusion’
‘Fear’
‘Loss’ ‘No where to go’
‘Anger’
‘Hope’
‘Sadness’
Flee for your lives’
![Page 73: Where would you go… …if your country was no longer safe?](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061305/5513f7975503462d418b4594/html5/thumbnails/73.jpg)
These are the thoughts of a refugee fleeing their country…
“No time for goodbyes, no time for mourning, no time for anything…just save your life and the lives of your children”.
![Page 74: Where would you go… …if your country was no longer safe?](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061305/5513f7975503462d418b4594/html5/thumbnails/74.jpg)
“It’s awful to leave your country. I left alone”.
“You never know when you are able to go back again and visit family and friends, your job – everything – all of your memories of life is there, you have to leave everything”.
An Iranian refugee
![Page 75: Where would you go… …if your country was no longer safe?](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061305/5513f7975503462d418b4594/html5/thumbnails/75.jpg)
The refugee journey…
An unimaginable experience
An unforgettable story
A courageous journey
![Page 76: Where would you go… …if your country was no longer safe?](https://reader033.fdocuments.in/reader033/viewer/2022061305/5513f7975503462d418b4594/html5/thumbnails/76.jpg)
It takes courage to be a refugee…
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There were an estimated 10.3 million refugees worldwide at the beginning of 2003.
That means there is a new refugee every 21 seconds.
UNHCR, 2004
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Around 47% of persons under the United Nations Commission for Refugees are children under the
age of 18.
13 % are under the age of five.
UNHCR, 2005
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‘Refugee women, especially widows, single mothers and the elderly are a particularly vulnerable population.’
An estimated 80% of refugees are women and children.
UNHCR 2005
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The occupational disruption,
IMAGINE…
The environmental destruction,
And the psychosocial turmoil…
…EXPERIENCED BY A REFUGEE
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IMAGINE…
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The war zone….
“When it hits you, when somebody that you knew or someone your close to, or their family, or somebody had just died. Seeing that scene, that loss, it’s really unbearable. You understand war, and your forced to grow up sooner than most kids do”.
A yugoslavian refugee
remembering the war
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Homes destroyed.
‘Environmental upheaval’
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Livelihoods lost
‘Occupational disruption’
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A new makeshift home…a refugee camp
“I saw a lot of tents, people and crying. I always saw mean people in the army just looking. It was muddy, very, very sad”.
Words of a 13 year old Albanian refugee
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‘There are very poor drainage and sanitation systems. At times standing water is several feet deep’. Refugees International talking about the camps in Bangladesh in 2005
Poor living conditions
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‘Living conditions in the camps are seriously overcrowded’.
‘Families of 8 or 10 eat, sleep, and work in eight by ten-foot square rooms’.
Refugee International
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Food is scarce.
Cooking utensils basic.
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A lost childhood.
No time for play. Only survival.
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Loss of meaningful occupation… Living i
“The cave is difficult to live in. There is no water, no windows. We don’t want anything but just want to work to be busy, to be able to buy our food, to send our children to school, and to buy them things.
My son wants to study but because we have no money he has to spend the day collecting firewood”. Refugee International, 2002
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“In refugee camps, the sheer desperation provokes people to use creativity, stretching their imagination to bring relief to the morbid atmosphere…
…I remember some kids just playing, try’na have fun. We tried to make anything fun”.
Voice of a Bosnian refugee remembering growing up in a refugee camp
Desperate for meaningful occupation…
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After years of waiting in a refugee camp…
Average time spent in a refugee camp was 9 years in 1993. This increased to 17 years in 2003. UN Committee for Refugees, 2004
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At last, sanctuary.
A new life to build.
World Refugee Day, UNHCR, 2006
And a determination to start all over again in an unfamiliar land.
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But, the refugee journey does not end on
arrival to their host country…
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They are again faced with a myriad of…
OCCUPATIONAL
ENVIRONMENTAL and
PSYCHOSOCIAL CHALLENGES
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Language barriers
Unfamiliar household items
Unfamiliar education and government systems
Unrecognised work credentials
Mental health concerns
Ongoing impact of trauma
New cultural and social expectations
Lost profession
Economic constraints
Unfamiliar leisure opportunities
Lost loved ones
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Occupational opportunities
We know that adjustment and learning take place because people participate in meaningful activities.
Reese, 2005
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These meaningful activities are domestic, social, recreational, academic and vocational. They take
place within the local community in homes, school, and the workplace.
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Opportunities for learning do not occur if there is no sustained participation in rewarding activities.
These opportunities need to be created; they do not occur by chance.
Reese, 2005
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It is neither wealth or splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson
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It takes courage, understanding and compassion…
…To work with refugees
Occupational therapists can make a difference
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Photo credits to:
Refugees International
Sincere thanks to Refugees International for your generosity in sharing your valuable photographs. They are a wonderful tribute to the refugee population and inspire compassion and understanding in others.
Thank you
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Where would you go…
…if your country was no longer safe?
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What would you take…
…if you had 5 minutes to leave home?
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“When you leave, you grab your children and nothing else”.
“We lost all our belongings” Voice of a Bosnian refugee
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‘Panic & confusion’
‘Fear’
‘Loss’ ‘No where to go’
‘Anger’
‘Hope’
‘Sadness’
Flee for your lives’
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These are the thoughts of a refugee fleeing their country…
“No time for goodbyes, no time for mourning, no time for anything…just save your life and the lives of your children”.
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“It’s awful to leave your country. I left alone”.
“You never know when you are able to go back again and visit family and friends, your job – everything – all of your memories of life is there, you have to leave everything”.
An Iranian refugee
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The refugee journey…
An unimaginable experience
An unforgettable story
A courageous journey
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It takes courage to be a refugee…
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There were an estimated 10.3 million refugees worldwide at the beginning of 2003.
That means there is a new refugee every 21 seconds.
UNHCR, 2004
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Around 47% of persons under the United Nations Commission for Refugees are children under the
age of 18.
13 % are under the age of five.
UNHCR, 2005
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‘Refugee women, especially widows, single mothers and the elderly are a particularly vulnerable population.’
An estimated 80% of refugees are women and children.
UNHCR 2005
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The occupational disruption,
IMAGINE…
The environmental destruction,
And the psychosocial turmoil…
…EXPERIENCED BY A REFUGEE
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IMAGINE…
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The war zone….
“When it hits you, when somebody that you knew or someone your close to, or their family, or somebody had just died. Seeing that scene, that loss, it’s really unbearable. You understand war, and your forced to grow up sooner than most kids do”.
A yugoslavian refugee
remembering the war
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Homes destroyed.
‘Environmental upheaval’
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Livelihoods lost
‘Occupational disruption’
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A new makeshift home…a refugee camp
“I saw a lot of tents, people and crying. I always saw mean people in the army just looking. It was muddy, very, very sad”.
Words of a 13 year old Albanian refugee
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‘There are very poor drainage and sanitation systems. At times standing water is several feet deep’. Refugees International talking about the camps in Bangladesh in 2005
Poor living conditions
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‘Living conditions in the camps are seriously overcrowded’.
‘Families of 8 or 10 eat, sleep, and work in eight by ten-foot square rooms’.
Refugee International
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Food is scarce.
Cooking utensils basic.
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A lost childhood.
No time for play. Only survival.
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Loss of meaningful occupation… Living i
“The cave is difficult to live in. There is no water, no windows. We don’t want anything but just want to work to be busy, to be able to buy our food, to send our children to school, and to buy them things.
My son wants to study but because we have no money he has to spend the day collecting firewood”. Refugee International, 2002
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“In refugee camps, the sheer desperation provokes people to use creativity, stretching their imagination to bring relief to the morbid atmosphere…
…I remember some kids just playing, try’na have fun. We tried to make anything fun”.
Voice of a Bosnian refugee remembering growing up in a refugee camp
Desperate for meaningful occupation…
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After years of waiting in a refugee camp…
Average time spent in a refugee camp was 9 years in 1993. This increased to 17 years in 2003. UN Committee for Refugees, 2004
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At last, sanctuary.
A new life to build.
World Refugee Day, UNHCR, 2006
And a determination to start all over again in an unfamiliar land.
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But, the refugee journey does not end on
arrival to their host country…
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They are again faced with a myriad of…
OCCUPATIONAL
ENVIRONMENTAL and
PSYCHOSOCIAL CHALLENGES
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Language barriers
Unfamiliar household items
Unfamiliar education and government systems
Unrecognised work credentials
Mental health concerns
Ongoing impact of trauma
New cultural and social expectations
Lost profession
Economic constraints
Unfamiliar leisure opportunities
Lost loved ones
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Occupational opportunities
We know that adjustment and learning take place because people participate in meaningful activities.
Reese, 2005
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These meaningful activities are domestic, social, recreational, academic and vocational. They take
place within the local community in homes, school, and the workplace.
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Opportunities for learning do not occur if there is no sustained participation in rewarding activities.
These opportunities need to be created; they do not occur by chance.
Reese, 2005
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It is neither wealth or splendor; but tranquility and occupation which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson
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It takes courage, understanding and compassion…
…To work with refugees
Occupational therapists can make a difference
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Photo credits to:
Refugees International
Sincere thanks to Refugees International for your generosity in sharing your valuable photographs. They are a wonderful tribute to the refugee population and inspire compassion and understanding in others.
Thank you