The trek home began and thousands of children went alone. Their parents lost or dead when the fighting broke out in the refugee camps. Children strain the capacity of the aid agencies in the area. They clog the emergency compounds set up to care for them. Refugees continue to come across the border at a rate of nearly 100,000 a day.
Aid workers are overwhelmed.
The International Committee of the Red Cross is working to redirect children to their home villages. Central Africa Crisis web-site stated that they are redirecting lost children to their home villages. If a child can identify their home village, they are moved directly there. Outreach workers seach for relatives by going from farm to farm and market to market. The Red Cross also said that more than 700,000 Rwandan refugees and Zairian residents remain unaccounted for.