COMPASSION FOR THE WRONG STRATEGY

Angelina Jolie, who donned a blue cap and black shirt, was spotted smiling while listening to a Somali refugee in Dadaab refugee camp on the Kenya-Somali border in East Africa, on Saturday.

The 34-year-old star has worked with UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) since early 2001.

The actress, who is a Goodwill Ambassador for the UNHCR, was busy with a day-long visit to the camp to focus on the forgotten plight of the refugees from Somalia and to appeal for solutions for the overcrowding.

Critics, however, see the UNHCR operation of the refugee camps in Kenya rather as a hotel-management exercise, where the owner wants to stay in business, have a high occupancy rate, and rather build an additional new hotel to which old and new guests can be transferred regardless of social implications for the refugees and the local population alike - all as the increasing expense of the international community.

"As long as UNHCR is not forced to seriously work with at least 50% of its efforts and money on rebuilding and securing the situation in the home-countries of the refugees in order to create a situation where the uprooted families can return to a safe and sound future in their own lands, the refugee-satellite cities all over the world will increase and the UNHCR as industry-leader in forced-hospitality will prosper for the wrong reasons - instead of striving to be not necessary any more UNHCR's wrong strategies are increasing the refugee problem the world over," states ECOTERRA Intl.

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