Uganda and South Sudan: War Trauma
Inflicted by "Lord's Resistance Army" Rebels
© Eberhard Riedel, "The Broom Maker - Northern Uganda, 2011"
This 83 year old woman in the Amuru Internally Displaced People's (IDP) Camp goes for days without food. She maintains her dignity by making brooms, which she sells for about seven cents a piece, eight of them on a good day. Being stuck in these IDP Camps without land for gardening is a sentence to hunger in regions in which sub-subsistence farming is the rule.