(CNN) warn help organizations of an impending humanitarian crisis for tens of thousands of refugees, who arrived after fleeing violence in C?te d'Ivoire and in Liberia.
International aid communications agency Oxfam says more than 100,000 people crossed the border from Ivory Coast villages have to Liberia and lives in a precarious situation in jungle.
The agency according to there are many stories of women separating husbands, arrival in Liberia children of their parents, and some not survive the journey through rivers and forests lost.
The refugees displaced by the fighting that has swept in C?te d'Ivoire. The International Committee of the Red Cross said Friday that had 800 people in the Western cocoa-producing town of Duekoue was shot dead. A UN officials the 330 Friday's death toll.
The violence broke after a controversial election November both Laurent Gbagbo and rival to Alassane Ouattara, who led Presidency. The international community recognised Ouattara as legitimate winner but Gbagbo refused to cede, power and violence has the nation engulfed.
Background on what the cause of the conflict in C?te d'Ivoire.
As the rainy season approaches and fight escalates is the country in which, the Oxfam of this time warning is just, flee for help for refugees in this remote villages.
When the rains come, we will not be able to reach them, because the entire area will become inaccessible.--Caroline gluck, Oxfam, Liberia
"If the rains come, it will fail, to reach them, because the entire area will become inaccessible,", explains Caroline Gluck, who works for Oxfam in Liberia. "The clock is ticking, people to secure and accessible."
She added that the influx of refugees that doubling is populations of some of the border villages and is a heavy burden on local, little food and facilities themselves have place.
Glug some of which has Ivory Coast, among them Gustave Glawoulou, whose Heimatstadt Blolequin interviewed came under attack by rebels escape. Glug said he fled in the middle of the night with his five children began the shots.
Glawoulou told Gluck he went for four days with his family to reach the Liberian border. To eat everything that you had, things were to find that in the forest. Now, in a border village called Ponah, he says conditions are very hard.
"There are 35 of us living in a house;" If not, we go it rains outside can, but if it rains we remain in crouched on a mat upright sitzen-- there is no place are, "he told Gluck."
"We want to leave this place, because there are too many of us, and from day to day always is it worse," Glawoulou told her. "After two or three months it could get very difficult as people are starting to get sicker because of bad food and shelter."
CNN could not independently verify this account.
Glug explained that many of the refugees in the villages have been border because they are close to their homes, and because they think they will find there and can lead relatively normal lives.
She says that many hate go to Commons if it is of the opinion it no economic opportunities.
The International Committee of the Red Cross works with Ivorian refugees in Liberia. It also warns that the growing number of refugees puts a heavy strain on Liberia host communities and says that it has registered more than 50 refugee children who have been separated from their parents.
Plan international, a children's organization works in Liberia, reported that some young people are completely traumatized by their experiences.
"Along the border of Liberia in Nimba County, I met refugee children, who could not smile and could not play." Also, they were shocked by all the violence, which had seen them, "said Berenger Berehoudougou from the group."
Also, plan says that it mostly women and children across the border from C?te d'Ivoire. "I saw only a few men."I know not what happened to the men and young, said Berehoudougou. "Some young people have told me their brothers and fathers for one of the sides in the conflict in Ivory Coast." But no one seems sure back happen in their home country, "he added."
Glug another of refugees that you had spoken with who was 15-year-old Stephane Ranhou, who arrived in the small border village Janzon, in South Eastern Liberia, with his younger sister Vanessa said. Glug said that they were, become separated from their parents and seven siblings as they fled the fighting in the documentation, and were now fed by local families.
"The villagers have their own problems, but they were very generous open their homes and provide protection for the Flüchtlinge--but there a severe lack of food, shelter and medical care are". Glug said.
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