Giles Duley

IOM/UNHCR, Angola. 2008

A lack of medicine means children in many provinces are dying from treatable illnesses. This young boy was dying from Malaria. His brother had passed away the week before.Luau, 2008
   
Children gather at the resettlement camp in Lunachi.These refuges returned to Angola only for floods to destroy their homes. They are now living in tented villages supplied by IOM.Cazombo, 2008
   
Young girls at the resettlement camp Lunachi.Cazombo, 2008
     
  
Until the recent end of the civil war many of these children had never been to their homelands. Born in the refugee camps of Zambia, they now find themselves outsiders within their own country. Speaking a different language and with nothing apart from the tents they live in, they face an uncertain future. Cazombo, 2008
   
With Malaria prevalent, the IOM is trying to distribute as many mosqito nets as possible. Without enough nets to go around, the priority is for mothers with young children, the under fives and the pregnant.Cazombo, 2008
   
A young girls peers through her mosquito net.Cazombo, 2008
     
  
A pregnant girl rests in her tent. She two was born in a camp.Cazombo, 2008
   
Children sing and clap at the opening of their new school.Luau, 2008
   
Despite having no chairs or desks, young children listen attentively. Their school had opened the week before.Cazombo, 2008
     
  
Often walking for miles, Angolan children show a constant determination to learn.Cazombo, 2008
   
Two boys swim while their mother washes their clothes.Luau, 2008