| inbluevt | Date: Monday, 2013/07/01, 10:35 AM | Message # 1 | DMCA |
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RWAMWANJA REFUGEE CAMP, Uganda, Jul 1 2013 (IPS) - If you were forced to flee your home to survive, what would you take?
What could you take? Jean Claude “Van Damme” Ndongizimana, 20, escaped
from the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo with just the bag in which
he kept his profits from selling milk and the clothes on his back.
He was forced to flee after M23 rebels fighting government troops attacked his village and attempted to recruit him two months ago. He eventually found his way to the Rwamwanja refugee camp in Kamwenge district, southwestern Uganda, which is currently home to more than 40,000 Congolese refugees.
The youth is one of nine refugees featured in a new photography exhibition being run by the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR). The photos show the refugees and the possessions they took with them when they fled their homes.
In his photo Ndongizimana sits on the grass with his black bag around his neck. In another shot, Florence Mukeshimana, 30, poses with her five young children and the old saucepan she grabbed before fleeing her home after her husband was blown up by a landmine. “When I found out my
husband was dead I lost hope and decided to leave the country,” Mukeshimana says.
The images were unveiled over a week ago and will go on display at the Mish Mash Restaurant and Art Gallery in Kampala on Jul. 2. The exhibition will run for three weeks and hopes to draw attention to the
thousands of people around the globe forced to escape war or persecution
every day.
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