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Liberia Photo Directory
September 26, 2003
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Flight to safety |
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Internally displaced persons(IDPs) on their way
to Salala Camp – home at last official count in mid-September,
to 26,091 people.
Photo credit: Callie Long ACT International
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David Weefah walked for three days before he
reached Salala |
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He pulled his shirt down to show his shoulder,
mottled with bright patches of raw flesh -- marks of his love
and compassion for a brother, too disabled to walk, who had to
be carried.
Photo credit: Callie Long ACT International
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Internally displaced family |
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Tens of thousands of families like this were
displaced in Liberia
Photo credit: Aasbjorn Skaaland NCA/ACT International
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Samuel Kanyon Doe Stadium - home to tens of thousands
of people displaced by the civil war that peaked in August. |
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Conditions at the stadium remain wretched, although
Action by Churches Together members have been providing an invaluable
service, emptying out the overflowing toilets in the stadium |
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Sawegbeh Camp, about 47 miles from Monrovia,
is home to more than 5000 people composed of approximately 1,000
families. |
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The camp was looted by rebel soldiers advancing
on the city. Residents who were forced to flee and are only now
returning; the people who live here were first displaced in 1999.
Photo: Geir K Lindahl |
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Miatta Roberts, a counselor and the women and
children’s project supervisor for Concerned Christian Community
(CCC). |
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"We have cried too much," says Miatta.
"We need divine intervention and grace to bring healing to
our country."
Photo credit: Callie Long ACT International
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CCC’s priorities are psycho social care
and trauma counseling – a service that is desperately needed
in the country right now. |
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The majority of the women registered with CCC
are widows. Many of them were forced to watch as their husbands
were killed; many of them were severely beaten. |
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ACT Network Liberia distribution of rice to IDPs |
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The Presbyteries of Arkansas and The Pines provided
more than $70,000 worth of rice. Photo credit: Callie Long ACT
International |
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Two elderly men exhausted from the trauma of
years of war and of being displaced. |
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Civil war broke out in Liberia in 1989. The war
officially ended with the election and inauguration of Charles
Taylor in 1997, but fighting broke out again in 1999, this time
between government forces and rebels calling themselves Liberians
United for Reconciliation and Democracy (LURD). Photo credit:
Callie Long ACT International
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Hope for the future |
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Kasali,a resident of Salala camp carrying leaves
he has collected. Children like Kasali are the hope for peace
in Liberia Photo credit: Callie Long ACT International |
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Any PC(USA) congregation or governing
body may use these photographs for noncommercial use without our
prior permission, but may not license their use to anyone else.
All other organizations, groups and members must receive our prior
written permission to use. When the photographs are used, credit
must be given to the photographer where indicated. |
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