Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.
Mother Teresa
They arrived at the transit centre in Jamam on a Sunday morning. A UNHCR staff radioed for high energy biscuits and water.
Photos: One family's story: they raised the alarm
It was a family of nine. One mother and eight children whose ages ranged from a few months to 21 years. A good samaritan had brought them from the border to Jamam on the trailer of his tractor. They were sitting under a tree on the ground and on a homemade bed. Their other belongings were in a tent. The mother said her husband, the children's father, had died some months before. She had decided to leave, although the rest of their community remained behind. There was hunger in the land; no sorghum in the fields.
When we came back in the evening, the atmosphere was relaxed, almost jovial. It was hard to tell which of the small boys had been sick. Ali had fixed his instrument.
Photos: One family's story: musical evening
This family that had embarked on an improbable journey to escape hunger in Blue Nile state brought on by armed conflict and people's inability to cultivate the land. Seeing them at the way station, with proper shelter, food, water, medical care, domestic items ...and compassionate humanitarian workers who joined them in song and dance, evoked Mother Teresa's quote, "Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."
Mother Teresa
They arrived at the transit centre in Jamam on a Sunday morning. A UNHCR staff radioed for high energy biscuits and water.
Photos: One family's story: they raised the alarm
It was a family of nine. One mother and eight children whose ages ranged from a few months to 21 years. A good samaritan had brought them from the border to Jamam on the trailer of his tractor. They were sitting under a tree on the ground and on a homemade bed. Their other belongings were in a tent. The mother said her husband, the children's father, had died some months before. She had decided to leave, although the rest of their community remained behind. There was hunger in the land; no sorghum in the fields.
When we came back in the evening, the atmosphere was relaxed, almost jovial. It was hard to tell which of the small boys had been sick. Ali had fixed his instrument.
Photos: One family's story: musical evening
This family that had embarked on an improbable journey to escape hunger in Blue Nile state brought on by armed conflict and people's inability to cultivate the land. Seeing them at the way station, with proper shelter, food, water, medical care, domestic items ...and compassionate humanitarian workers who joined them in song and dance, evoked Mother Teresa's quote, "Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat."
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