Children on Nauru
The four year-old boy in the picture below has been on Nauru since October 2001.
The nine year-old brother of this child writes:
'my brother he is four years old. He is sick. A doctor came from australia. she said I want to operation him.' ' my mother hand is broken . she cant wish the clothes. the doctor doesn't want to safe my mother because you are not accepted. my father has a problem in Afghanistan the people beat him. my father was injured in afghanistan, now my father is under the hand of the doctor., all night my father cant sleep . all day all night. he is just walking under. around the camp. .. everyday they are saying that you should go back. my father is crazy. we can't go back. they will kill my father....what should we do.'
The boys' mother also writes:
'As you asked about my hand. I have hurt in Afghanistan when i was working. I just fell down and broke it. We don't have much facilities in Nauru to be treated wee. When we go to the doctor they just ignore us because we haven'y been accepted.'
Please note that to protect their identity we do not use this family's name.