This week SBS broadcast the second series of Go Back to Where You Came From
featuring a cast of celebrities experiencing
first-hand the daily reality of life for millions of refugees around the world.
Their experience is a brief glimpse about what it’s like to live under the
daily threat of attack in Mogadishu or to just try and survive in remote and
barren refugee camps in Ethiopia.
Supporting refugees and displaced people in these crises
situations is the core work of Australia for UNHCR.Our donors have been major
funders of emergency relief in Somalia, Afghanistan and Ethiopia. Sometimes it
is difficult to get your head around the sheer size of displaced populations we
are dealing with. For example as at 15 August 2012, there were 165,081
individuals and 40,187 households in the Dollo Ado camps featured in the SBS series.
That’s the equivalent to a city the size of Cairns!
