touching the war refugees as real people

meeting a family on the run because of war is heart-rending indeed! experts from non-government organizations classify them as internally displaced people (idp). i call them "my brothers and sisters" who happened to be in the crossfire between the guns of the armed forces of the philippines and the moro islamic liberation front. they are not mere information bytes to be classified for easy filing system among bureaucrats and technocrats. they are human beings who need to be loved, touched, cared for... there is a huge need for food and medicine for them, and yet the media spends more time and space gossipping about actors' lives than broadcasting the real needs of people. whatever happened to our sense of value and sense of reality?!