Uganda / IDP Camp

I’ve been working in the IDP camps in northern Uganda for the past three days. I photographed over 50 women and children in their homes. Needless to say I am exhausted but I have to remember I get to go home and the refugees have to remain in the camps. I try and help with my work and hopefully this story will bring some attention to their situation. 

In a statement, UNHCR, notes that an average of more than 1,800 South Sudanese refugees a day have fled to Uganda in the past year. The influx has become the fastest growing refugee crisis in the world. More than 85 per cent of South Sudanese refugees in Uganda are women and children under the age of 18. The Ugandans have provided them with land and UNHCR has provided them with shelter and food. Diseases like malaria are rampant but the majority of them have nets for their beds. Since my visit last year, they have established communities and a local trading market. 

Because of the war, the refugees have little hope of ever returning to South Sudan. Most have lived there over a year and admit, “Uganda is their home now.” 



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