Neglected list 2021

1. DR Congo - Anne and her children carrying wood sticks to make fire

" You probably won't read about us. Three years ago we received help from foreign NGOs, but now there is nothing. The school hasn't any teachers, we don't get food. I think other countries don't want to help anymore. We can only rely on each other" Anne says.

Anne and her children have been displaced for three years now. She was a teacher in her village in Masisi. She can't teach anymore as her husband died and she has to take care of her children.

"When we arrived here three years ago we received some help, but humanitarian aid has gradually faded away."

"To survive now, we can only rely on the other families. Children, women, and men look for fruits, vegetables, and wood in the bush and it's dangerous. There are rebels outside. Many women have been raped, men are sometimes beaten. We have to choose between that and food, that's our life," she says.

Date: 26 October 2020
Location: Kishanga camp, North Kivu
Photo: Tom Peyre-Costa/NRC