you rise it could describe meyer's own life he was behind bars for 18 years for crimes including a marja conviction this area the cape flats has a reputation for organized crime and drug trafficking cape town she's an average of 8 murders every day but lockdown has led to a drop in gang warfare according to a local pastor. there's a resigned and a mother of 4 says leon meyer has become a symbol of hope in the area since the last time she used up a welfare payments halfway through the month unemployment is rife here. it's the 4th year. people like us and our neighbors to our people. and. we don't get support that anything that only. put it. up. and support the community is good. but criminologist dawn pena is convinced gang members have an ulterior motive for helping out their community. gangs in my experience seldom do anything for anybody else that they it's all about themselves it's all about what they can gain so you know my 1st question would be if they distributing food parcels why you know what are they getting out of it and. you know that they might want to look good in their comm

$1500000.00 are internally displaced the whens are asking for $1300000000.00 in aid this year and i'm in marja over a 1000000 ethnic rohingya have been forced from their homes 7 $150000.00 of them fled to bangladesh the u.n. wants to raise $877000000.00 to help them. i. let's bring in our guests in geneva heather lee director of the new humanitarian and nonprofit journalism organization focused on humanitarian crises in paris director of partnerships and policy at the norwegian refugee council and in beirut scene and associate professor of policy and planning at the american university of beirut and chair before refugees and initiative thank you all for joining us now the figures are completely mind boggling as we've said $5500000000.00 just for syria $24000000.00 for refugees in pakistan and the list goes on and on i want to begin with solving in paris every organization that i've spoken to and publicly has said that doesn't matter whether it's nato organization what is the u.n. anybody remotely connected with dealing with refugees is worried about money i guess it's the same for your organiz