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Description: Creating awareness and raising funds to aid Dzaleka Refugee Camp residents.
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Concerned with the well-being of the most vulnerable populations within the camp at the start of the COVID-19 crisis, a group of World Universities Service of Canada (WUSC) students and a few other friends created Little Acts of Kindness with the aim of gathering and sharing information and fundraising options via this website and promoting this information to all who might step in and help via donations of any size. For group members who were once refugees in Malawi or elsewhere, the challenges that Dzalek
One month’s food for a family of four. Photo ©There Is Hope
Even though we are all affected by the pandemic, Dzaleka refugees are in the worst possible position as overcrowding makes social distancing nearly impossible and confinement means they are not able to meet basic needs – like enough food and medical care. In recent years, the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has reduced the amount of food distributed to a few kilograms that are barely enough to survive on. Recently, the UNHCR has changed its protocol for food distribution so that some refugees have bee