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A man stands in the middle of a dusty compound. Around him, 60 people
sit and drink water that he paid for, eat food that he gave them, and
take shelter under the roof of his own house. Their faces are a mix
of relief and sadness: relief that they escaped the violence that caused
them to flee, and sadness for the destruction they have witnessed and
for those they have left behind. These people are not this man’s family –
in fact, he has never met most of them before today. But for these 60
people, this man is their only hope, and the only person keeping them
alive.
My colleagues and I made
our way to the compound of a Member of Parliament in the country’s
troubled Jonglei state. We were there to meet with several people who
had sought refuge from violence in the town of Pibor. People like Mary.
On Friday night, the last of the humanitarian workers in Pibor town were
evacuated by UN helicopter as South Sudanese forces roamed the dusty
streets, attacking civilians and looting anything they could carry.
Voices of Haiti captures, through words, photography, and song, Haitians navigating seemingly insurmountable challenges.
There are roughly 4,000 ‘citizens of nowhere’ in the United States
today. They are from Kuwait, Burma, the former Soviet Union and
Yugoslavia, and many other places. Legally speaking, however, they don’t
belong anywhere.
