(CNN) - helps organizations warn of an impending humanitarian crisis for tens of thousands of refugees who have arrived in Liberia after fleeing the violence in C?te d'Ivoire.
International aid agency Oxfam said more than 100 000 people crossed the border of C?te d'Ivoire, Liberia and live in terrible conditions in the villages of the jungle.
The Agency said there are many stories of wives separated from husband, children arriving in Liberia having lost their parents and some do not survive the journey through forests and water courses.
Refugees have been displaced by the fighting that has swept of C?te d'Ivoire. The International Committee of the Red Cross said Friday that 800 people had been slaughtered in the town of Duékoué West cocoa producers. An official of the United Nations put the number of dead at 330 Friday.
The violence erupted after that a contested November election led incumbent Laurent Gbagbo and rival Alassane Ouattara, to claim the Presidency. The international community has recognised Ouattara as legitimate winner but Gbagbo refused to relinquish power, and violence has wracked the nation.
Background on what is the origin of the conflict in C?te d'Ivoire.
The rainy season passes approaches and fighting in the country that oxfam launches a warning this time is measured to get aid to the refugees living in these remote villages.
When the rains come, we will not be able to achieve with help because the entire area will become inaccessible.-Caroline Gluck, Oxfam, Liberia
"When the rains come, us will not be able to reach them with aid because the entire area will become inaccessible,", said Caroline Gluck, who works for Oxfam in Liberia. "Time is short to bring people to areas safe and accessible".
She added that the influx of refugees are to double the population of some of the border villages and exerts enormous pressure on the premises, which have little food and facilities themselves.
Gluck interviewed some of those escaping from C?te d'Ivoire, among them Gustave Glawoulou, whose hometown of Blolequin was attacked by rebel forces. Gluck said that he fled in the middle of the night with her five children when the shooting began.
Glawoulou said Gluck he walked four days with his family to the Liberian border. They were all they had to eat things, they found in the forest. Now, in a border village called Ponah, he said that the conditions are very difficult.
"There are 35 of us who live in a house;" If it's not raining, we can go outside, but when it rains, we remain domestic Crouching on a standing - sitting mat there is no bedroom, "he said Gluck."
"We would like to leave this place because there are too many of us and it is getting worse every day," he told Glawoulou. "After two or three months it could get very hard as people will start to get more ill because of the bad food and shelter."
CNN could not independently verify this account.
Gluck explained that most of the refugees left the border villages because they are close to their homes and because they think they can find work he and lead a relatively normal life.
She said that many are reluctant to go to camps where they feel that no there is no economic opportunities.
The International Committee of the Red Cross also works with the Ivorian refugees in Liberia. Too, he warns that the growing number of refugees places a heavy burden on host communities Liberian and said that he has recorded more than 50 children of refugees who have been separated from their parents.
Plan international, an organization working in Liberia, reported that some young people are completely traumatized by their experiences.
"Through the border of Liberia in Nimba County, I have met children of refugees who could not smile and was unable to play." They were too shocked by the violence they had seen, "said Berenger Berehoudougou of the group."
Plan also says that it is mainly women and children crossing the border of C?te d'Ivoire. "I have not seen that a few men.". I don't know what happened to the men and boys, "said Berehoudougou. "Some young people told me their brothers and fathers are fighting for one of the parties to the conflict in C?te d'Ivoire." "But no one seems sure of what is happening in their country of origin", he added.
Gluck said another refugee that she had spoken 15 years, Stephane Ranhou, happened at the border village of Janzon, in southeastern Liberia, with his young sister Vanessa. Gluck said that they had become separated from their parents and brothers and seven sisters as they escaped the fighting in Doku and were now fed by local families.
"The villagers have their own problems but they have been very generous opening up their homes and giving shelter to refugees - there is a serious shortage of food, shelter and medical care." Gluck said.
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