https://www.sophieneiman.com/nyiragongo daily 0.75 2023-01-17 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1651012215964-2TW1T8EAKI18WNJB38BU/Turning_Lava_to_Gravel_1.JPG After Nyiragongo Women break down volcanic rock into gravel in the hope of earning a few dollars. The My a Mount Nyiragongo eruption left thousands of people homeless. (Sophie Neiman, July 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1651012215964-2TW1T8EAKI18WNJB38BU/Turning_Lava_to_Gravel_1.JPG After Nyiragongo Women break down volcanic rock into gravel in the hope of earning a few dollars. The My a Mount Nyiragongo eruption left thousands of people homeless. (Sophie Neiman, July 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1670792368701-PNMXM0CMSV04F0O3PVLG/Women_on_Lava.JPG After Nyiragongo Women break down volcanic rock into gravel in the hope of earning a few dollars. The May 2021 eruption of Mount Nyiragongo in The Democratic Republic of the Congo left thousands of people homeless. But the displaced say aid is slow to arrive amidst a highly politicized response. (Sophie Neiman, July 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1651012321888-89EVKNN9C16MMSOPDZUP/Buzuri_5.JPG After Nyiragongo 30,000 displaced people living in makeshift camps say that aid promised by the government and humanitarian organizations has been slow to arrive, and is not enough. (Sophie Neiman, July 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1670793607480-AQZUNNXV9R7M2GVWR1LE/Kibati_Camp.JPG After Nyiragongo Many lives in Congo have been shaped by Mount Nyiragongo, which previously erupted in 1977 and 2022. Janette Mwana’s husband chocked on a cloud of gas in 2022. She lost all of her possessions in the 2021 eruption, and now lives in a tent made of scraps of clothe. “We are starving. There is nothing [here],” she said. (Sophie Neiman, July 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1651012178583-SLJSM35KZFKTQ4T6CBXB/Paszhazia_Kahumba.JPG After Nyiragongo Pascaziya Kahumba and her five children are living in Bujuri camp – one of roughly a dozen sites where displaced people say they are struggling to meet their basic needs (Sophie Neiman, July 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1651075865417-SG3FUMJTNFC9UCULQNJU/Removing_Cast_At_Bujuri_IDP_Site.JPG After Nyiragongo Bembeleza Musalia fell onto lava rocks after Nyiragongo erupted, breaking her arm. Her husband, who has no medical training, helped her cut off her cast using a small metal file. Musalia worked as a tailor before the may eruption, but the lava destroyed her sewing machine, leaving behind only scraps of twisted metal. (Sophie Neiman, July 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1651076466508-EZJVU4AII4Q0SW1B152X/Water_Line_Mugoja_Site.JPG After Nyiragongo Long ques for water are common at displacement sites, like this one in Mujoga. The water often runs out before everyone has gotten their share. (Sophie Neiman, July 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1651012154624-MJ982TU8Q2FVHFFDOZGB/First_Lady_Aid_Distribtion_Mujoga.JPG After Nyiragongo Displaced people await a distribution of aid from a foundation operated by Congolese First Lady Denise Nyakéru Tshisekedi. (Sophie Neiman, July 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1651075869149-77AK1Y718TAL0SR110PQ/Denis_Katembo.jpg After Nyiragongo Denis Katambo spent a long morning in August moving heavy stones to mark where is house once stood. The heat and smell of sulfur were overpowering on the lava fields, but he intends to build a new home despite the risks. He says he his angry Nyiragongo erupted without warning from the authorities, preventing him from saving precious belongings from the lava. “We couldn’t do anything,” he said. “We were just waiting.” (Sophie Neiman, August 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1651012127889-HJT0CX1PWT79V9UJO9F0/Working_on_Lava_Rocks.jpg After Nyiragongo Men shovel gravel made from hardened lava rocks into trucks in the city Goma in an attempt to make a little money. The Mount Nyiragongo eruption destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of people. (Sophie Neiman, July 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1651077293043-JPYZ4V8PIYIZHDFHH6UP/OVG_in_the_Field_3.JPG After Nyiragongo Volcanologists walk across hardened lava in Goma. They were measuring the width of new fissures that had cracked open in the earth in May. (Sophie Neiman, July 2021) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1651012130036-AJ52NTVQYO95VD80BIJ0/Nyiragong_from_Kibati.JPG After Nyiragongo Mount Nyiragono casts an imposing shadow over the city of Goma. (Sophie Neiman, 2021) https://www.sophieneiman.com/bidi-bid daily 0.75 2022-12-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1670834351931-VYXYUGN0KXWR3L4564XU/Rose_Mary_Kute_Lightened.jpg Bidi Bidi Refugees in Uganda are facing increasing hunger and some are considering returning to their home countries as funding shortages force the World Food Programme (WFP) to cut rations for the third time in as many years. Rose Mary Kute, a resident of Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, says she plans to go back to South Sudan because of a lack of services in the camp. (Sophie Neiman, Novemeber 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1670834351931-VYXYUGN0KXWR3L4564XU/Rose_Mary_Kute_Lightened.jpg Bidi Bidi Refugees in Uganda are facing increasing hunger and some are considering returning to their home countries as funding shortages force the World Food Programme (WFP) to cut rations for the third time in as many years. Rose Mary Kute, a resident of Bidi Bidi refugee settlement, says she plans to go back to South Sudan because of a lack of services in the camp. (Sophie Neiman, Novemeber 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1670834758987-KZ2XXOIFPNGCXWOW5HEG/Florina_Akwero_Grinding_Sorghum_1.jpg Bidi Bidi Florina Akwero, 31, was already struggling to feed her five children, but now she has to care for three more relatives who left South Sudan after a recent neighbourhood dispute. “The food I have is not enough, and I don’t know how I will take care of these kids,” Akwero said. (Sophie Neiman, November 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1670834541943-0WW84NDB2AWVF617ZS7D/Evening_Market_Bidbidi_1.jpg Bidi Bidi In the past, refugees also could trade part of food given by WFP to vary their diets, or sell it buy other essential items. This is not possible now that rations have been reduced. “It is very hard for them to get something to support themselves,” Esther Sabili, a women’s leader in the camp, said of her fellow refugees. (Sophie Neiman, November, 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1670835014164-Z6ENCBV47XJ7C5HZU1B3/Rufus_Bidali_Portrait_1.jpg Bidi Bidi Rufus Bidali has been travelling back and forth between South Sudan and Uganda for the past year in order to supplement food rations with farming. He said rebels stole most of the crops he recently managed to harvest back home. “You just live in fear,” he said, of returning to South Sudan. “At night, you do not sleep well.” (Sophie Neiman, November 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1670835224534-E30GY35KEOBW8GMXHXWW/Margaret_Maridno_Gathering_Firewood_1.jpg Bidi Bidi Margaret Mauridiyo, 25, is responsible for supporting her family of eight. When food rations run out, she sells alcohol brewed from fermented sorghum, and ventures out of Bidi Bidi to collect firewood. One bundle is worth less than a dollar, but it brings in an additional meal for her family. (Sophie Neiman, November 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1670835349499-KE8C7NUNYJ8Z18SL4MEO/Isaac_Angaba_School_Records_1.jpg Bidi Bidi Isaac Anguba is the assistant head teacher of Bidi Bidi’s Rockland Primary School. He said hunger is making it harder for children to attend school and focus in class. 440 students had dropped out of his school this year, and those who do attend mostly turn up at exam time, or leave before the day is finished to look for food. (Sophie Neiman, November 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1670835534106-JHOSEQFV3NWNOZ35RJ2A/Women_Smoke_Shisha_Bidi_Bidi.jpg Bidi Bidi Women smoke shisha and relax in the twilight at Bidi Bidi refugee settlement. (Sophie Neiman, November 2022) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d3c190c0a28060001b2676a/1670835743110-6O3CZ7QW7YB7N2UT9FEI/Women_Washing_Clothes_Bidibidi_1.jpg Bidi Bidi Women wash clothes together in a stream at Bidi Bidi refugee settlement. (Sophie Neiman, November 2022)