Our lunch break on the edge of the “desert” i.e. pond.
One of the camps. This one had a bad measles outbreak
Different color sticks represented popuations, deaths, disease etc.
Orange flags were surrounding villages
Gaga camp with some of my team interviewing the camp director
The orange netting is the camp boundary
A village of 1,000 located near the camp
Our camp looking toward the pond
Save the Children's camp next door
Evan, our logistician, shared a tent with me
The four tents of the World Food Program Camp
Disaster struck over night with inflows of 5,000 new refugees and a cholera outbreak in Oure Cassoni
One of our skills stations where we dug a latrine
Pete and Shuro did the heavy digging
Our team on the move between camps
Shuro
Shuro and team leader Pete
The whole weekend was organized by a dedicated group of volunteers who played roles of soldiers, UN officials and camp staff
UN Operations Headquarters
Natasha, our Nutrition and Food Security Tech
Alexa, Security Officer
A view over the pond at dusk
The center of the NGO camp with 4 NGOs visible
Our (somewhat isolated) WFP camp
World Food Program - Natasha, Alexa, Lara, Evan, Michael-John, Pete, Maggie, Shuro
Hot chocolate and coffee after a long days work
Fletcher folk - Maggie, Devon and Kathryn
WFP camp after we moved out - leave no trace
Packing out
The central camp breaks down
Natasha
Me packing out the trash
The rain came just as we got the tents packed away
Devon and Michael-John
Steve's hunchback helped his stuff stay dry
Margherita
She's Italian she can't help it
Logistician pack up the stuff
...and the garbage
CARE's map of camp location
Kathryn proposes a food distribution plan
Pete presents WFP's plan to get planes, trucks and warehouses set up for a $37 million logistical operation
NGO country directors and UN staff critique our plans
NGO staff in eastern Chad/Massachussetts
