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Community learning project in the schools closed by 2012 crisis, UNICEF, Feb 2018.NRC Education project funded by UNICEF in the regions of Mopti, Tombouctou and Gao.

  • Bogo Kassogué Mayor of Doucoumbo Commune. <br /> <br /> 'Right now we are in the Bandiagara Cultural Center. There are women and children here. The people fled their village due to the conflict to come here to this center. <br /> We have enormous difficulties in this center. Difficulties concerning food, water and hygiene. There are also health issues. As mayor I have a great responsibility to come to the aid of these people in need. Each day, more villagers arrive and this is just one of three centers for displaced people that have come here to Bandiagara.<br /> <br /> As of now, we have counted 67 households and 823 displaced people who are in this center. The people arrived here on the 20th of June so they’ve been here for 1 week now. There isn’t even enough space to sleep and move, and as you can see the room is full with women and children.<br /> <br /> We call on the government to respond to this crisis, so that these women and children will be able to return to their villages. They want to be able to eventually return to cultivate their lands. It’s really disheartening for them to be here and have to stare at these four walls all day long. They would like to be able to return to their villages as soon as it is safe.'<br /> <br /> Photo Credit: Itunu Kuku/NRC
  • Yadigné Djiguiba, 35, displaced and mother of five sits in a displacement center in Bandiagara town, Mopti region, Mali. Intercommunal violence in her village caused her and several others to seek refuge in Bandiagara.<br /> <br /> "I would not want to go back home, back to the situation I saw and experienced. We fled because it wasn't safe. There were killings, gunshots and also the presence of armed men. As long as they are there, we do not want to go back "<br /> <br /> Photo Credit: Itunu Kuku/NRC
  • Ousmane Kene, 12 years old. Fled with his mother Fatoumata Kelipely to Bandiagara. <br /> <br /> "I saw dead people and i saw others that were injured. I heard gunshots. I was scared and I screamed. Immediately, I went to alert my mother. The only thing I want now is peace. Because, I fled leaving my school and my classmates. I want to go back. "<br /> <br /> Photo Credit: Itunu Kuku/NRC
  • Displaced people in Bandiagara town, in the Mopti region of Mali, use the shadow cast by one of the walls of the Bandiagara Cultural Center for shade. The Bandiagara Cultural Center has been transformed into a displacement center to receive the large number of displaced people who fled their villages due to intercommunal violence in Mopti region. The cultural center itself is filled to capacity meaning that several displaced people have to sit outside. There is only one latrine for the entire building and the living conditions of this make-shift displacement center are dire. Displaced people claim to be in urgent need of food, soap and household materials.<br /> <br /> Photo Credit : Itunu Kuku
  • Zatid Dine, poses for the camera with two children. She fled intercommunal violence in Mopti region to come to Tina Djorof in Timbutku region. <br /> <br /> 'We saw such horrors that I will never forget. I am afraid to go back because of what I saw. Some people have even lost their minds. This is how traumatized we are by what we saw. I came here on foot walking for days, others came on the backs of donkeys. When we arrived we received assistance from NRC, but now what we received has run out and we need assistance again especially with food.'<br /> <br /> Photo Credit: Itunu Kuku
  • Sandi Ag Mohamed fled Bankass in Mopti region to come to Tina Djorof in Timbuktu region. On March 23 2019, 134 people were killed in a village in the Bankass district where Sandi is from. He decided to leave Bankass to go to Timbuktu.<br /> <br /> 'We fled there because of killings, cattle robberies and the sounds of weapons. Some saw their houses burned, their belongings destroyed. The communities are fighting on one side and on the other side, there are the military and some armed men who are fighting each other. That's why we fled and came here. Along the way, we suffered a lot because we do not have money to take the buses. Some of us had carts and donkeys that they used as a means of transportation. But others have walked days and nights to get here. It was their only option.<br /> Here, we feel really safe and away from all these tragedies. But we have needs, such as shelter, food, clean water, medicine for our patients and a school for our children. <br /> <br /> We do not intend to return there at all until there is peace.<br /> <br /> Photo Credit: Itunu Kuku/NRC
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