Refugees can languish in camps for decades....When American film producer Caroline Baron worked in Kosovo and Macedonia, she was struck by the boredom of the displaced, who had nothing to distract them from their traumas.
Baron dreamed up a project she thought would bring "hopeful entertainment and laughter" to children and exiles [by sending] projectors and films into the camps for Kosovo refugees in April 1999. Now her project, FilmAid International, is taking wing....
FilmAid's library has expanded from Charlie Chaplin movies, cartoons and "Titanic" to include education material on... sexual and gender-based violence and conflict resolution.
6/6/01
The Washington Post reports on the continued suffering in the
Balkan region, June 6, 2001:
