Wonder Girls and Women -The African Refugee Crisis

• Photographer
  Dorte Verner, Denmark

Wonder girls and women are the forcibly displaced caught in the refugee crisis in Africa. They have lost family members and assets, but who continue to demonstrate wondrous resiliency. Most experience violence and women said: “Nobody hear me when I scream from my tent when I am raped” or “it is dangerous to fetch firewood alone.” There are few jobs, so girls sell peanuts on dangerous sites. Violence increases with climate change as it leaves refugees food insecurity. For women the desperate need to feed their children has forced them to sell the only thing they have left to trade – their body.