Buduburam Refugee Camp - Ghana
Wednesday, 01 July 2009
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Written by Gianluca Di Santo
This article in Italian
Buduburam Refugee Camp
Ghana - Africa
These shots tell the life of the inhabitants in the Buduburam refugee camp in Ghana, that has existed for nearly two decades and hosts 40,000 refugees from the civil war in Liberia.
Children who where victims of war, both as civilians and as part of factional fighting, live in dramatic condition in that region: actually children who at the age of nine years were forced to hate each other and killing one another, cohabit in the camp. Among the 40,000 people who live in Buduburam, 25,000 are former Liberian children soldiers. They need aid to survive now and to try to overcome the trauma they have suffered in the recent past. But they feel in fact abandoned: in the camp there's no trace of the presence of the UN or the international community and the media ignore them.
Children who where victims of war, both as civilians and as part of factional fighting, live in dramatic condition in that region: actually children who at the age of nine years were forced to hate each other and killing one another, cohabit in the camp. Among the 40,000 people who live in Buduburam, 25,000 are former Liberian children soldiers. They need aid to survive now and to try to overcome the trauma they have suffered in the recent past. But they feel in fact abandoned: in the camp there's no trace of the presence of the UN or the international community and the media ignore them.
The photographs are part of the project "Telling You The Facts", a documentary filmed in November 2006 by Gianluca Di Santo and Catherine Boyle (White Tara Productions). A warm thank for their kindness and generosity.
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