__________Tunisia: May 2011__________

As most of you already know, in May I was able to go to Tunisia with a good friend Sean Rogers. We had been really challenged to try and help out in some way with the refugee situation in North Africa due to the Libyan conflict. We heard that Tunisia had the largest amount of refugees, and so we found cheap tickets and flew down there. To give you a picture of how last minute this trip was: we booked it saturday night and we left at 5am sunday morning...CRAZY! What follows are some pictures and I will caption each one to give you a run through of where God led us in the two weeks we were there.

{Tunisian Mosque In Chenini [near Tataouine]}

{Sean Rogers in Chenini}

{A friend we made- Guardiane

of the mosque in Chenini}

{This mosque used to be a Berber Christian church

before the Islamic reform in Northern Africa}

{Desert}

{Sean from a cliff overlooking the mosque}

{Sandstorm on the Libyan border

in the Choucha refugee camp}

{Desert on the way to the refugee camp}

{Traditional Berber woman in Toujane

[notice the tattoos on face]}

{Berber woman}

{Berber woman}

{We were able to take photos

of them and send them prints}

{It was the first time they had

portraits taken of them, affirming

their beauty}

{Our guide named Fatti. The women

pictured above are his aunts}

{Goat in the village of Toujane}

{The only road in Toujane}

{Hours after refugee camp

Choucha was burned to the ground}

{Tunisian people from a nearby

village came and beat refugees

and destroyed thousands of tent

homes}

{Just burning blankets and bare tent

poles remained of the refugees belongings}

{Tents were looted the next day by

the people who burned them down}

{NGO's tents were not spared}

{The school in the camp was

targeted most deliberately}

{Children were rummaging through burnt

school supplies hours after the attacks}

{The school was burnt in an

attempt to get the refugees removed

from the area and to a different location}

{The local residents were upset by the slowing of

commerce due to protests on the main road

between Tunisia and Libya}

{More of the remnants of

the UNICEF school}

{Smoke from the tents filled the air as refugees

walked around in a daze, not quite sure what had

just happened and trying to cope with becoming refugees

once again, inside of a refugee camp}

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