There are smaller camps, too, and help also is given to villages in the region. Relief agencies throughout the world have been providing food, shelter, medicine and other assistance to the displaced. There is hope amidst the destruction and despair. There is school for the children, and crops are cultivated. Still, as time passes, the former lives of the displaced fade.
Youngsters grow up without their tribal rituals and their future is hazy.
In Koboko, Uganda, where 58,000 Sudanese refugees settled in August, some win the struggle to stay alive while others die daily of illnesses. On the White Nile's west side, the refugees fled from fighting in the Kaya area of Sudan and crossed the border into Uganda where four camps were established two months ago. Others are still walking in the bush in Sudan, desperately seeking food and shelter. They are not poor. The U.N. estimates 2.5 million people in Sudan need assistance.