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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