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Looking forward
I cannot complain about where I do sleep because I know am lucky to have all this and sleep peacefully without worrying whether morning will come and I am still in one place. Another day is gone and I look forward to a better tomorrow.
An esteemed customer
This is a place for play station we pay 20bob (20Ksh) per game it’s very interesting. I am an esteemed customer hence I get a chance to play for free most times. I play different games from soccer to motor racing. It puts me at peace.
Groceries from the neighbourhood Kibanda
This is a photo of my neighbourhood ‘kibanda’ this is where I buy my groceries it’s not as expensive as to buy in town and you can buy in very small quantities. I pass by here every day in order to get my evening food before I read then go play.
Learning on the internet
I try to use the Internet to understand the situation I do not get the picture. Every time I see things I try to imagine what it would be like if I was in Bukavu or Beni or maybe somewhere in Congo. I am very interested in computers and I spend a lot of time here. I have learnt a lot.
Wondering about home
Eldoret town, I pass by here while going to school. The town is developed and people walk comfortable and go on with their daily business it makes me wonder a lot how Congo is.
The student's day
First of all I am a student in one of these colleges and I am sponsored. Am not very comfortable letting people know I’m from DRC… they may treat me differently. Many people think am from western Kenya since I have lived in Kenya for over 10 years. I came as a little child and I have lived with nuns. I have never returned to Congo because I have nothing to return to [sighs sadly] anyway this is how my day is like.
Marriage despite war
This picture show us a wedding despite the war, people have not stopped marrying and have not stopped thinking of new projects. People marry despite the war.
Idle and overwhelmed
People are idle and therefore overwhelmed by the situation and decided to indulge in drinking and smoking cigarettes in order to console themselves. They believe that by drinking they can console themselves. They spend all their time in bistros and bars to console themselves.
Children abandoned to their own fate
We see children who are abandoned. These children would be in school. At such time they would be in schools, but following a government that is irresponsible, coupled with the fact that parents are not able to pay school fees for the children, parents send their children to sell eggs, water in town in various markets and instead, children opt to play such games. The children are not taken care of. They are abandoned to their own fate.
Hoping for a solution
Following the failure of politics, people go to various churches to pray, hoping that it is from God that a solution to the problems in eastern DRC will be found. You can tell the kind of churches that you find in in areas with a good record of the war. Because people still know God even in time of war, they still build churches despite their life situation. They hope that by praying in such churches, they can find a solution to their problems.
Living in sub-standard houses
People are living in sub-standard houses, the dirt; people are living in dirty areas. Abnormal life conditions, girls are transporting buckets of water from long distances in order to get water to bathe, prepare meals. Only misery and difficulties surround the life of war survivors from the East.
Same struggle to survive
I am now in Lubumbashi and I am realizing that I am going through the same experiences I lived in back in Eastern DRC. People… people are suffering… people from the East are struggling to survive. They are even doing heavy work to survive, someone is carrying a sack that is weighing a sac that weighs abound 200-300 Kgs while himself weighs around 60-70 kgs.
Food from here
I am comparing food from here and that from my place of origin. Food in my place is produced in abundance and it is cheap.