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\n \n\n \n \nI 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.
\n \n\n \n \nThis is a place for play station we pay 20bob (20Ksh) per game it\u2019s 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.
\n \n\n \n \nThis is a photo of my neighbourhood \u2018kibanda\u2019 this is where I buy my groceries it\u2019s 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.
\n \n\n \n \nI 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.
\n \n\n \n \nEldoret 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.
\n \n\n \n \nFirst of all I am a student in one of these colleges and I am sponsored. Am not very comfortable letting people know I\u2019m from DRC\u2026 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.
\n \n\n \n \nThis 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.
\n \n\n \n \nPeople 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.
\n \n\n \n \nWe 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.
\n \n\n \n \nFollowing 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.
\n \n\n \n \nPeople 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.
\n \n\n \n \nI am now in Lubumbashi and I am realizing that I am going through the same experiences I lived in back in Eastern DRC. People\u2026 people are suffering\u2026 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.
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