Sweden for UNHCR is launching a campaign that wants to highlight the situation in war where children are separated from their parents and relatives from their loved ones. They are especially thinking of all the fathers who are currently left in Ukraine and their children who are longing for them.
– The refugee disaster in and from Ukraine is the disaster in the world that has involved the most cases of family splits, says Åsa Widell, Secretary General of UNHCR Sweden.
Ambassador Tousin Tusse Chiza has made a new version of Evert Taube’s show “Pappa kom hem”. It is a beautiful and emotional version and one close to Tusse’s heart as he himself has not yet seen his father again since fleeing over 15 years ago.
Together with Åsa Widell, Secretary General Sweden for UNHCR, he talks about the initiative and the loss of his parents after fleeing the Congo as a child.
– I don’t remember the incident itself, but I remember missing the very important roles that mother and father play, says Tusse.
Hear Åsa Widell and Tousin Tusse Chiza tell more in the player above.