A sixteen-year-old boy from
Congo Republic lives in a refugee camp in Tanzania. Baruani at the age of seven
living in Congo Republic soldiers burnt Baruani’s families’ house down and they
were killed. “As I was small, I managed to escape through a little hole in the
wall," he explains when soldiers raided his village in the Congo. He fled
from Congo Republic and ran away to a refugee camp. When he reached the refugee
camp he felt like an outsider like the other 60,000 people there, whom over
half are children. Baruani knows personally how lonely people can feel when in
refugee camps with no parents. Baruani decided to make a radio station that
would help reunite families that would have fled from the Congo Republic and a
to give a voice for all the refugee children without a voice.
Baruani’s radio station
helps families get reunited that have split up when the war in the Congo
Republic occurred. He thought that something should be done for these people
that should be with their families. Barauni helps many families get back
together by making sure many people hear what he has to say using his radio
station. When he was younger his family was separated because of the war in the
Congo Republic he had to flee to Tanzania refugee camp to survive. He was alone
and had no hope of family while others had hope of a family and the hope is the
radio station. From his experiences with his family having died. “Furthermore, through his radio show Baruani contributes to
reuniting children with their parents. The children use the radio show to call
upon people familiar with them or their family”. Living in the refugee camp where many people miss their families
and who have no hope. People from Tanzania, Rwanda, Burundi, and Congo have a chance to listen to his radio channel
called 'Sisi kwa Sisi' (Children
for Children). People can hear what he
says and which children are looking for their rest of their family. He tries his best to make sure that nearly
everyone has a chance to hear what he has to say.
Baruani and his radio
station fight for a voice for many for people in different places in Africa. He
was a boy with no voice and now he is a symbol of voice for child refugees like
him. “The radio show and Child
Voice Out program help identify these children in need, so that they can be
assisted by one of the specialized organizations in the camp”. Children in refugees are often alone and he is a voice who talks
to them, they can talk to him and for once they have a voice and can say in
something about themselves.
People in the refugee camps often are not part
of the community because they have no identification or passport to say that
they are from. The people at the refugees do not have the money to pay for
identification and passports for all the children. That makes them feel like an
outsider, and with no parents they really have no one to talk to other than
each other. Many of the people who listen to the radio station are refugees
that want a voice.
Baruani is a hope for
people with no families and refugees with no voice. Baruani uses his life
problems inspiration for his radio station, he knows what those people with no
families feel like. So he talks to them about their problems make them feel
like they are someone who is not lonely and that there is still hope. For some
of the children he talks to are lucky because he helps those children find
their family. It is important for him to have won the Children's Nobel Peace
Prize, now he knows that people really need him and he can also have an
achievement for what he has done. He is now known worldwide for being on the
radio for people who need support and want to be reunited with their families.
He is no longer a boy from the Congo Republic with no voice anymore.
Some information from UNHCR
Some information from The Kids Millenium Right
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