Liz Kelly of the Washington Post’s Celebritology posted a video interview with Jeff Fahey yesterday, then the second written part was posted today. Fahey is very involved with humanitarian projects overseas, in a very low-key way. So low key, that I’d never heard about his involvement.
Please watch the video and read the article here:
Fahey has long devoted much of his time to assisting individuals and organizations in post-conflict areas, particularly Afghanistan. In more recent months, he has added another issue to his plate: the rights of Sahwari refugees forced to live for decades in camps in Algeria's Tindouf Province.
Fahey was in Washington this week, having just returned from a visit to Morocco to meet with aid workers and a few refugees who have escaped from the camps, which have existed since Spain withdrew from the Western Sahara in the mid-1970s. It's his fourth time visiting the region during the past six months.
"You look at the news every day and there's so much going on," Fahey says. "But these people have been in these [Algerian] camps for 35 years. Maybe it's time that they got a little more assistance."
