Imagine you have 3 minutes to gather your family and leave your home for a refugee camp. This scenario will be played out in 5 Canadian cities this fall when a refugee camp (www.msf.ca/refugeecamp) created by Médecins Sans Frontières will be taken on a national tour. The public exhibit, which will include a health clinic, latrines, vaccination area and shelters, is designed to draw attention to the plight of the roughly 39 million refugees and internally displaced persons around the world.
“For many people living in Canada it can be difficult to imagine what the lives of displaced persons are like, how the very things most of us take for granted — clean drinking water, shelter, an adequate food supply — can disappear with the blink of an eye,” says MSF spokesperson Tommi Laulajainen. The camp will be set up in Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver.
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