Fall at the doors ✍️ Taha Harun Hamed
Pain classes between displacement, hunger, disease and environmental pollution
As the fall season approaches, the incendiary summer pages are folded to open new pages that can wear a certain hope, but also reveal humanitarian and environmental crises that aggravate year after year. At a time when some await the beauty of the fall of autumn leaves, others are under the weight of asylum, displacement, diseases, hunger and environmental pollution, as if nature changed their colors to express the change in people’s conditions, not the beauty of the seasons
Fall … is not only a chapter
In stable societies, autumn is a transitional stage that promises the beginning of cold life and renewed in another way. But in conflict areas and fragile societies, the fall becomes a declaration of the start of the new suffering. In temporary tents for refugees and displaced people, each decrease in temperatures is a severe test to support life in the middle of the fragility of shelter and the absence of basic resources (and the supply of eclipses, drinks and other needs)
Disclosure and asylum … Suffering continuously continuously
According to statistics from international organizations, the number of refugees and people in the world exceeded 100 million people, a number that humanity has never seen before. Most of them live in temporary camps that lack infrastructure and health services, making them vulnerable to diseases, especially in transitional seasons. Fall here is not a romantic season, but the start of the cold, the disease and the urgent need for covers, medicines and food.
Political crises, wars and civilian conflicts are still pushing millions of people to escape their country of origin, in search of security and dignity. With the absence of fair political solutions, their suffering continues in the endless vortex.
Diseases … invisible ally of conflicts and poverty
The fall season is generally associated with an increase in cases of respiratory infection, colds and respiratory diseases, (hunger, malaria, etc.), especially in overcrowded and unhealthy places such as travel camps. With the lack of health care for medical and psychological states and advice, these minor diseases are transformed into epidemics that harvest lives, especially in children and the elderly.
Low immunity resulting from malnutrition, the absence of hygiene and the spread of insects and garbage deepen the danger of the health situation. Fall here is the separation of diseases, not only separating the fall from the leaves.
Hungry … poverty of the stomach and poverty of dignity
Global food programs show that hundreds of millions in the world suffer from food insecurity, and this number is increasing considerably during periods of crises and climate change. During the fall season, some agricultural crops decrease in many countries, and the need to store food increases in preparation for winter, which leads to high prices and a drop in purchasing power, especially in poor companies.
In travel areas, food aid is insufficient or intermittent. Hunger here is not only the absence of food, but it is a break in human dignity, and transforming it into an object that awaits the advantage of living another day.
Environmental pollution … the silent face of the crisis
The manifestations of environmental pollution increases in the fall due to the combustion of agricultural waste and the use of firewood and charcoal for heating in poor areas, which causes high levels of air pollution. Overcrowded cities and refugee camps are considered one of the most affected places, because pollution is mixed with other factors such as open waste, standing water (where mosquitoes and other insects are born) and the lack of health infrastructure.
Pollution here is not only an environmental problem, but a health and social problem, which increases the risk of respiratory diseases, affects quality of life and threatens environmental balance.
Where is escape?
Fall is on the doors, and with it the intervention of fragile companies in a new circle of multiple challenges: long movement, the release of diseases, the hunger that is worse and the increase in pollution. All this occurs in a world in which disasters seem to accumulate more quickly than their solutions. Consequently, the role of humanitarian organizations, international institutions and governments becomes more urgent than ever.
It is necessary to adopt complete and lasting solutions, which treat crises of crises, not only of their symptoms and return to the human being of their dignity, and to reconcile it with the nature which is stifled by the chaos of humans.
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