(ANS - Kakuma) - In the Turkana desert, in the North-West of Kenya, there is a huge refugee camp at Kakuma.  It was opened in 1992 and currently hosts 190,000 refugees. It was the largest in the world until another one sprang up at Dadaab, also in Kenya, with 350,000 refugees.  They were described as two large "parking lots of despair".  Now they are at risk. On 6 May last, the Kenyan government announced that it wanted to close them and to close down the Department of Refugee Affairs (DRA).

(ANS - Rome) - Opening the pages of the newspapers and seeing the plight of children around the world creates a sense of hopelessness. The news is depressing for those who care about the world of children. "The child population as a whole is the subject of serious violations: abduction, sexual violence, child marriages and forced recruitment." If we stop to think, a second thought comes immediately. What is happening? How can we tolerate such suffering? Indifference has globalized, said Pope Francis, becoming a "selfish attitude of indifference that has achieved a global dimension."

(ANS - Adwa) - In the Salesian mission in Adwa, the most depressed region of Ethiopia, Christians and Muslims are working together to overcome poverty.