Contributor:
Alamjit Singh
Source:
Article from The Age
Posted: 18-6-2009
A choir that was formed by women who shared past experiences in refugee camps in Africa will perform as part of the refugee week this Sunday.
AFTER facing and fleeing war, killings and rape in Sierra Leone, and spending up to 15 years in refugee camps in neighbouring Ghana and Guinea, it might be assumed that the women of the Kankelay choir have little to sing about.
The trauma of those experiences didn't get left behind in those countries, but accompanied them when they came to Australia as humanitarian refugees.
Nearly all members of the choir still nurse the grief of family separation, often not knowing where sons, daughters or siblings are, or even if they are still alive.
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