It was my mother with five little children.

Aisshh!

Every year we lose 50 thousand square miles in deforestation.

The year is 1998, the place is a prison camp for Tutsi refugees in Congo.

My name is Ahmed.

Others? The refugee center?

lots of people out on the street.

Protect the refugees!

The refugees took shelter in a refugee camp from the Red Cross.

You could be in New York.

(Laughter) the boys in Michael Morpurgo's Friend or Foe

Protect the refugees!

Protect the retreating refugees!

...which will then be filled with fat Lithuanian midgets.

Travel as refugees.

This is my community.

Community

We started something

Of course, they're planting trees. They're growing organic vegetables.

And there is no way, and no proof of arrival.

And the kind of thing they're doing is demobilizing militias, rebuilding economies, resettling refugees, even liberating child soldiers.

For so many years we have fed on aid.

And you'll be happy to know we have liberated the refugee camp in Kasanga Province.

All civilians must now evacuate the area.

Refugees in Africa are seeking help.

If they was from another country we might understand.

And the Athabasca River drains downstream to a range of Aboriginal communities.

In some parts of the country, 60 percent of kids drop out of high school.

That boat was full of refugees from Cuba.

(Applause)

This is a graph of the Ruby community.

The refugees struggled against hunger.

Now privacy issues aside, the other really interesting issue

We must relieve the refugees of their suffering.

The light blue is refugee camps these volunteers had spotted from the satellite images .

And the orthopedic center was closed.

Now the next step that happened is within these communities.

So they spread out all the census data, and what they found, the guy described to me as a shocker, which is that in 1,997 out of 2,000 communities, women, young women, were making more money than young men.

It's actually happening now.

We're not all of them, of course, but TED is a community of opinion leaders.

The refugees struggled against hunger.

No apple has ever tasted the same.

In Canada. He got out in the refugee boat from Bremerhaven.

We were refugees from a tiny country.

There's no refugee center. That's a pipe dream.