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Photo: Sara Machozi. DRC 2012 © Juan Carlos Tomasi

“We Were Told All Our Houses Had Been Burnt”

Sara Machozi and her family fled their village after fighting between armed groups in Kuziza, in South Kivu. They are staying in the town of Kalungu, but the 33-year-old mother of three is anxious about her family’s future and their lack of resources.

“We were at home and we heard the sound of the bullets,” says Sara. “We decided to escape to Minova, and that’s why we are here.” Forced to run away with virtually nothing, their only aim was to survive. “On the way here, we starved and got sick. We could not bring anything with us, not even money,” she says.

They escaped without injury or loss of life, but now her family is facing a dire situation in Kalungu with no hope of returning home. “Here we are suffering from hunger,” says Sara. “We would like to go back to our village, but it is not safe. When we got here, we were told all our houses had been burnt.”

MSF has expanded its emergency medical programs in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in response to increasing humanitarian needs in the region.

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