UN Seeks Extra Funding for DRC Displaced
September 21, 2012
Refugee children, displaced by continued fighting in north Kivu province in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), wait for food in the Nyakabande refugee transit camp in Kisoro town, 521 km (324 miles) southwest of Uganda's capital Kampala, July 13, 2012
United Nations agencies are appealing for additional funding to help people uprooted by conflict in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Insecurity and the weather are proving to be major challenges for relief operations in the east of the country. The DRC’s most troubled province.
Life goes on at a displaced people’s camp on the outskirts of Goma, North Kivu’s capital. Children troop to the schoolhouse singing "Let’s go to school so we can learn religion, arithmetic and French."
At night the homeless take their place in the classroom and sleep under the desks. Outside, thousands more people who have fled conflict sleep in huts made of sticks and grass, covered with plastic sheets that don’t always keep out the floods.
There’s been one general food distribution to the 55,000 people at this informal camp at Kanyarucinya, a few kilometers to the north of Goma, since it was opened several months ago.
Everyone, including aid workers, agrees the food was seriously sub-standard.
Conditions are difficult here. One man said, "We don’t have enough to eat. We could die of hunger here because these beans they’ve given us are rotten."
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