Campaign for the displaced: in their words
Apr 22nd, 2009 by Louise Williams, OCHA
The campaign is publishing a series of first-person accounts of people who have been forced to flee their homes in the Central African Republic.
Caroline Ngoena.
Caroline Ngoena is thirty nine years old, she lives in the town of Paoua in north western CAR. Pig breeding is how she earns a living for her family of 7 children, she’s also the chairwoman of Yekwa Group in the town. Caroline’s life was turned upside down in March 2006 when violence came to the town.
“We realized that death was at hand. Everyone had to fend for themselves in order to escape death. We didn’t have time to think about the animals because they were sleeping outside. We fled into the bush, 32 kilometres away. We spent three months living in the bush like this.”
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