Sunday, September 14, 2008

mobile home....literally


Here are some makeshift homes. They have nothing to work with except the elements around them. These houses must be rebuilt every time they move to a different refugee camp.
This is a refugee camp in Chad, a bordering country. The genocide that is taking place in Darfur displaces thousands of people. They live in makeshift shelters like these.
It gets very hot during the day so any shelter is helpful. People are crowded into spaces and families rarely have their own unit of space. There is no such thing as privacy.
This is an aerial view of a refugee camp.
These may look like piles of garbage to us, but these are homes. They are very unstable and not tall enough to fit a grown adult in.

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