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"I love this bedsheet because it kept me and my family warm while we escaped into Uganda." Joseph
Name: Joseph Thoytha
Age: 30 years
Status: Married with two wives
Family: 11 children
Origin: Jonglei state
Location: Simbili settlement, Mvepi parish, Arua
Oxfam support: Oxfam working with CEFORD (Community Empowerment for Rural Development) is providing short term employment in form of cash for work to SSD refugees and host communities to carry on a number of activities including digging access roads.
Story
Joseph is currently working with Oxfam partner CEFORD in simbili settlement as a translator and a site supervisor for the ongoing cash for work programme.
He came to Uganda with his two wives and 10 of his children. The last of his children was with the grandmother in a different location at the time the fighting broke out. He heard that they ran to Ethiopia
Having work to do according to Joseph has kept him busy away from thinking so much about the situation. He is also earning some money that has helped him put up two separate houses for his two wives.
His attachment is on a purple floral piece of bed sheet known as Melaya which he managed to carry with him at the time of fleeing.
“I love it because it was very light to carry and it kept us warm along the way to Uganda.” Joseph
photo and copyright: Petterik Wiggers/Panos Pictures London UK
"I love this bedsheet because it kept me and my family warm while we escaped into Uganda." Joseph
Name: Joseph Thoytha
Age: 30 years
Status: Married with two wives
Family: 11 children
Origin: Jonglei state
Location: Simbili settlement, Mvepi parish, Arua
Oxfam support: Oxfam working with CEFORD (Community Empowerment for Rural Development) is providing short term employment in form of cash for work to SSD refugees and host communities to carry on a number of activities including digging access roads.
Story
Joseph is currently working with Oxfam partner CEFORD in simbili settlement as a translator and a site supervisor for the ongoing cash for work programme.
He came to Uganda with his two wives and 10 of his children. The last of his children was with the grandmother in a different location at the time the fighting broke out. He heard that they ran to Ethiopia
Having work to do according to Joseph has kept him busy away from thinking so much about the situation. He is also earning some money that has helped him put up two separate houses for his two wives.
His attachment is on a purple floral piece of bed sheet known as Melaya which he managed to carry with him at the time of fleeing.
“I love it because it was very light to carry and it kept us warm along the way to Uganda.” Joseph
photo and copyright: Petterik Wiggers/Panos Pictures London UK