Daily life...?, a photo from Nord-Kivu, North

Photographer's Note

Rwanda genocide

Kibumba refugee field

Waiting for help at Kibumba II dispensary.
Working together with IFRCRC we do about 700 daily consultations.Major problems were cholera and other diarrheal conditions, respiratory and skin diseases, meningitis,malnutrition, pregnancy disorders...
Talking about psychological post-trauma conditions is quite a "problem" for developed countries.

Photo/scan

July 1994

mauricet, nicol_g, Leilani, xuaxo, manub has marked this note useful

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cris_assandri (164) 2008-03-10 9:42

Hi Jose',
very strong moment. This is one of those photos where the image says more than 1000 of words.
Regards, Cris

Polonaise (5802) 2008-03-10 17:17

Priceless documentary...For TE...
For us...
For the world...

Clinched fists...

g.

Leilani (1385) 2008-03-11 5:49

Jose, your pictures break my heart. I hope they will break others enough to spur them onto action...to help others understand what is going on in the world and what has happened. Please do not stop posting, the story needs to be told...and who better to tell it? Kind Regards, Leilani

xuaxo (6854) 2008-03-11 6:30

Olб Josй
Vejo esta foto com o mesmo sentimento e atitude que vi as outras. Pode haver quem ache estas fotos repetitivas, mas eu acho que fazes bem em continuar a divulgб-las.
Primeiro, porque й preciso insistir para que estas tragйdias nгo sejam esquecidas, para ver se algo й feito para que nгo se repitam.
Segundo, muita gente aqui no TE pode nгo ver as fotos de um dia, mas ver as de outro. Assim, a "repetiзгo" acaba por fazer chegar esta mensagem a mais pessoas.
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Fotograficamente (que й o que menos me importa aqui), esta (entre as semelhantes, assim com muita gente) й uma das que tem mais impacto, talvez devido а tenda, que salta а vista, e а posiзгo de algumas pessoas.
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Nгo costumo agradecer por as pessoas apresentarem fotos no TE. Parto do princнpio que as publicam aqui jб com a boa vontade de as partilhar com todos nуs.
Mas tenho feito algumas excepзхes. Esta sйrie de fotos merece tambйm que eu manifeste o meu apreзo e excepcional gratidгo por terem sido publicadas. Sem esquecer, principalmente, o meu agrecimento e louvor pelo trabalho dos voluntбrios da AMI (e outros) na situaзгo a que estas fotos dizem respeito.
Um abraзo,
F

rbcy1974 (20758) 2008-12-19 6:57

Hello Jose
Great photo,
great documentary. The living conditions are captured perfectly, its too bad the quality of the scan is not so good. You should try to rescann some of your photos at a higher quality as they are very good and teach us a great amount about the workd.
Regards
Daniel

maglex (1980) 2008-12-29 16:44

Hi Jose, a very moving photo showing the living condition of the refugees which i think is evry important to portray here in TE among members. This are scenes we don't normally see. Timeless, but hopefully we can end or diminish this human sufferings at least. Thanks for sharing....Alex