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  • Day 8~ April 8th~ Congo

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    Back in 2009, when I visited Congo, there were about 300,000 children roaming the streets of the country and categorized under the name “les enfants de la rue”~ children of the street. I interviewed some of these children in the CAJED center in Kinshasa, a Congolese non-governmental organization created in 1992 to lodge, care for and…

  • Day 6~ April 6th~ Congo

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    The first thing that gets sacrificed is the trust… With the innocence of children comes a great trust, the gift of expecting only the best of others towards them because they are not yet capable of processing hypocrisy. War changes the rule of the game. Suddenly children are worried, untrusting, distressed, hungry, and filled with…

  • Day 5~ April 5th~ Congo

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    The face of exhaustion… Images can tell stories so much better than words. When I look back at an image like this of a refugee child, I feel so much more than what can be put into words. So I will leave the words to you this time, to form your own.  

  • Day 3~ April 3rd~ Congo

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    Each time I hear parents trying to convince their children in our western world to eat more, to drink more milk, to eat just another bite; my mind goes back to the children I met in Congo. A glass of milk can have the power to transform a desperate little face into a bright smiling…

  • Day 1~ April 1st~ Congo

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    At  times when I hear myself grumble about my coffee not being the right taste or temperature, my mind goes back to this smiling girl and to her story… After months of living in terror, running from prosecution by militias, escaping bullets, rape, sickness and capture, this Rwandan child arrived in a UNICEF supported medical clinic in…

  • Day 12~ March 12th~ Egypt

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    We create art inspired by what we see around us, what touches us, what we live with… The children at valley of the nobles on the west bank of the nile near Luxor carry around dolls that they sell to tourists for a fraction of an Egyptian pound. The strangest thing about these dolls is…

  • A photograph captures a lot more than a smile, a look or a moment in time

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    After coming back home from my trip to Congo, I keep going back in my mind to the thought of what the camera really captures. It is strange how many cultures believe truly that a photograph can capture part of their soul, and so they hesitate to let you photograph them for fear of losing…

  • Congolese Advertising

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    On most city streets in Congo you see painted billboards, shop signs, and wall murals that are painted in a very colorful and unique style. Maybe it is for lack of money for printed ads and signs, but it makes for such a unique look that draws your eyes to the glaring ads that if…

  • Goma, a city with two ghosts..

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    The people of Goma have to live with the presence of 2 ghosts haunting them every moment. The first one is Nyirangongo, the active volcano only 13 Km away, that destroyed about 40 % of the city in 2002, then erupted again in 2005. In the evenings it was so eerie to see the flames…

  • Chukudu

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    The Chukudu, found mostly in the streets of Goma, is what people, mostly children use to transport hundreds of kilos from place to place. It is amazing to see them moving so fast around the crowded streets. They came with the thousands and thousands of refugees that used to cross the border from Rwanda to…