• Goleu Bloc, Blolequin Nord, Guiglo, Côte d'Ivoire.
    • Goleu Bloc, Blolequin Nord, Guiglo, Côte d'Ivoire. "We survived on raw food for weeks. Making a cooking fire would have attracted the wrong kind of attention."
      © Nederlandse Rode Kruis / B. Houdijk

    Being pregnant, Nadia was unable to make the journey to Liberia on foot, so she lived hidden away in the bush for several weeks with no health care. And it was in the bush that she gave birth to her second son, in silence for fear of discovery. Now, Nadia and her little boy are receiving medical care from the mobile health clinic that visits her village once a week.

  • Goleu Bloc, Blolequin Nord, Guiglo, Côte d'Ivoire. Health volunteers from the Ivorian Red Cross run mobile health clinics, providing the only health care for thousands of people.
    • Goleu Bloc, Blolequin Nord, Guiglo, Côte d'Ivoire. Health volunteers from the Ivorian Red Cross run mobile health clinics, providing the only health care for thousands of people.
      © ICRC / L. Horanieh

    During the crisis, Ivorian Red Cross volunteers risked their own safety to help a civilian population in dire straits.

  • Médibli, Guiglo, Côte d'Ivoire. Following the first round of violence in 2002, the women of Médibli set up a cooperative to make sure there would be enough food. 23 of them worked in the fields, processed the produce and cooked it for sale at the market.

    Over the years, they had managed to buy tools and equipment to help boost their income. Then, in 2011, most villagers had to flee. When they returned, all the cooperative's assets had been stolen; their tools, equipment and stocks of food were all gone. In October 2011, these women gathered again and set up a new cooperative, this time under the name of "Toukira," which means "the war has ended."

  • Toulépleu, Guiglo, Côte d'Ivoire.

    Eight children who became separated from their parents while fleeing to Liberia on foot are reunited with their families with the help of the ICRC.

  • Toulépleu, Guiglo, Côte d'Ivoire.

    Eight children who became separated from their parents while fleeing to Liberia on foot are reunited with their families with the help of the ICRC.

  • Toulépleu, Guiglo, Côte d'Ivoire.

    Eight children who became separated from their parents while fleeing to Liberia on foot are reunited with their families with the help of the ICRC.

  • Ligaleu, Zouan-Hounien, Man, Côte d'Ivoire. A mother takes her daughter in her arms as they are reunited following months of separation.

    This reunification and many others are the fruit of cooperation between ICRC offices in Liberia, those in Côte d'Ivoire, and the Liberian and Ivorian Red Cross Societies.

  • Granpain, Bangolo, Man, Côte d'Ivoire.

    Flore fled with her five children after armed men stormed her home and killed her brother in cold blood right in front of her. Pregnant at the time, Flore was spared and told to leave her home immediately. Her house was subsequently torched. She is now living with a host family in Granpain and her husband is desperately looking for employment. In the meantime, she relies entirely on food aid to feed herself and her five children.

  • Granpain, Bangolo, Man, Côte d'Ivoire. A volunteer from the Ivorian Red Cross society helps a woman transport food.

    300 families are hosting hundreds of people from neighbouring villages who have fled the violence, and the food will help them feed their involuntary "guests."

  • Granpain, Bangolo, Man, Côte d'Ivoire.

    Families hosting people displaced from neighbouring villages collect food distributed by the Ivorian Red Cross society.


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