Being away from your home country and in a very foreign environment would cause some emotional trauma, provided that, Baruani is making a difference in many refugee children’s hearts by providing counseling on his radio show. A lot of the time all these children want is someone ‘normal’ and like them to talk with, ‘with only limited resources, he (Baruani) has succeeded in setting up a radio programme in which he talks about problems and challenges with his peer refugee children’ (Children’s Peace Prize). Baruani knows the troubles most of the children are going through after running from their home country and understands how much pain they would be going through. In the refugee camps of Tanzania, many people spend their lives waiting, waiting for food, waiting for permanent homes, waiting to get out. These camps, being such dangerous places, women and minorities aren’t often safe, albinos and their families have to live inside closed fences to ensure their safety. (Pulitzer Center). Since Baruani knows the pain he knows that it would’ve helped so much if someone had talked about it with him. Baruani had no one to talk to about his issues and so he created a place for those who needed it. ‘There are still children who are not capacitated yet to have self esteem to talk about issues which concern them’ (Baruani’s Blogpost). Baruani Ndume’s radio programme is a way for some of these refugee children to open up when they need to and slowly begin to talk about their issues. In Middle School as well, many people don’t have the self esteem to talk about their problems and it helps me understand why Baruani would help his peers and why they need help. Needing someone to talk to is vital in a person’s life, if it’s just to let out your feelings and your circumstances or to get advice on what’s going on, you should never keep it bottle up. Baruani has provided that opportunity for many children in his refugee camp. With all the tragedy in the world, some people need to take initiative and help others in need.
Since so many refugee children have been torn from their parents, Baruani has decided to help children with a possible reuniting with their families using his radio programme. What Baruani is doing has been quite successful, ‘He (Baruani) has succeeded in setting up a radio programme...thanks to this, many children have now been reunited with their families’ (Children’s Peace Prize). Although Baruani didn’t have the advantage of being reunited with his parents, he wants other children to have that privilege, Baruani fled the Democratic Republic of Congo only to be separated from his family somewhere in the journey. With his limited resources he managed to have enough hope to set up his programme so he could pass his hope onto others. If kids’ parents have continued to flee past Tanzania, Baruani’s programme helps them find their families. ‘The programme has been highly successful and is now broadcast in DR Congo, Tanzania, Burundi, and Rwanda’ (Children’s Peace Prize).Obviously only starting with a few successes, Baruani’s radio show began to grow and has now brought love back to so many children that have a life so much worse than ours. These children deserve the chance they’re getting with Baruani’s radio programme. As a result, many children, affected by Baruani’s good deeds, now have him to thank as they bask alongside their parents’ love.
Since living in a refugee camp most his life, Baruani Ndume created a radio programme to help other children through the problems he knew they would have. By helping children through troubles, Baruani has given them the hope to continue their lives with their loved one’s and to strive for the help of the misfortuned later in their lives. It is because of these good deeds Baruani Ndume was awarded the Children’s International Peace Prize in 2009. Baruani is an inspiration to many refugee children around the world as he continues his work in world peace to aid many more children that need it. With the amount of peace necessary in the world today, only a few people are doing something about, one day, if Baruani Ndume continues his work and many others start, there will be a bandaid on the earth and it may start to heal.
