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COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Villa Esperanza Del Barreno new refugee settlement. Enric, director of the Bogota M - Paul Fusco

COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Villa Esperanza Del Barreno new refugee settlement. Enric, director of the Bogota M

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. The sprawling refugee settlement Agua Blanca is infamous for its internecine gang warfare, drugs and gratuitous violence. Weekends bring the most suffering. Time, booze and drugs ignite bravado or recall supposed slights. Gangs roam their turfs and the staff the small local hospital waits for victims. A gang member stabbed to death at 21. An E.R doctor said,

COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. The sprawling refugee settlement Agua Blanca is infamous for its internecine gang warfare, drugs and gratuitous violence. Weekends br...

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. The sprawling refugee settlement Agua Blanca is infamous for its internecine gang warfare, drugs and gratuitous violence. Weekends bring the most suffering. Time, booze and drugs ignite bravado or recall supposed slights. Gangs roam their turfs and the staff the small local hospital waits for victims. A medical emergency aid delivers the body of a drug overdosed teenage girl to the emergency room. - Paul Fusco

COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. The sprawling refugee settlement Agua Blanca is infamous for its internecine gang warfare, drugs and gratuitous violence. Weekends br...

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Agua Blanca. The gangs rule, kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy and rehabillitation clinic. The young come for help and never ask other victims about past affilliations. Victim Juan Carlos lives with his girlfriend, Rosa and their baby, in Rosa's mother's small house in Agua Blanca, the neighborhood where Juan was gunned down. - Paul Fusco

COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Agua Blanca. The gangs rule, kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy and rehabillitation clinic. The young come for help...

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. For years Agua Blanca been the hope for thousands of refugees trying to escape the violence of armed conflict. It's an impoverished quagmire where everyone lives under the treat of violence. Family violence is so pervasive that MSF conducts workshops called 'Encuentro Con Amor' to 'eradicate violence against women'. Young and old come together to learn, to encourage one another and to celebrate their strengths. Many young pregnant women participated. Most are not married and the ramifications cause great stress and anxiety for the young women and men. - Paul Fusco

COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. For years Agua Blanca been the hope for thousands of refugees trying to escape the violence of armed conflict. It's an impoverished q...

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Agua Blanca. The gangs rule, kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy and rehabillitation clinic. The young come for help and never ask other victims about affilliations. Wilson Marrquin, expandillero, gunshot victim, lives with his family and tries to be independent and does many things for himself. He is encouraged by the progress he has made since joining in the MSF rehab program. - Paul Fusco

COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Agua Blanca. The gangs rule, kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy and rehabillitation clinic. The young come for help...

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. MSF works in Agua Blanca an area that has recieved a flood of refugees for years. For years the paramillitary has regularly cleansed the streets of those they've designated as the

COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. MSF works in Agua Blanca an area that has recieved a flood of refugees for years. For years the paramillitary has regularly cleansed ...

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Bogota, Alto de Cazuca area. 1998. Villa Esperanza Del Barreno refugees fleeing the violence of armed conflict has been going on in Colombia for three decades thousands of them settle in the huge basin in the mountains, that make Bogota one of the most beautiful vistas in the world. They stream in, claim home sites in mountain sides and begin life a new. Young sisters haul the family laundry more than a mile to the village. - Paul Fusco

COLOMBIA. Bogota, Alto de Cazuca area. 1998. Villa Esperanza Del Barreno refugees fleeing the violence of armed conflict has been going on in Colombia for th...

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. The gangs rule, kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy and rehabillitation clinic. The young come for help and never ask other victims about past affilliations. Juan Carlos who was shot in the lower back to cripple his life with his girlfriend and their baby. He works dilligently at rehabillitation and vows that eventually he will be whole. - Paul Fusco

COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. The gangs rule, kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy and rehabillitation clinic. The young come for help and never ask...

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Agua Blanca. The gangs rule, kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy a - Paul Fusco

COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Agua Blanca. The gangs rule, kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy a

COLOMBIA. MSF. - MSF. Villa Esperanza Del Barreno, new refugee settlement in the moonscape of a quarry. A family rest during a hike back into the hills from the main road returning from shopping. They are starting their community from scratch, built mostly by faith and sweat, because there is almost no help available. - Paul Fusco

MSF. Villa Esperanza Del Barreno, new refugee settlement in the moonscape of a quarry. A family rest during a hike back into the hills from the main road retu...

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLUMBIA. Bogota. 1998. Children at a pre school in the Corinto district of Bogota take their monthly treatment of a antiparasitic that the MSF medical team brings to them during regular visits for medical care. - Paul Fusco

COLUMBIA. Bogota. 1998. Children at a pre school in the Corinto district of Bogota take their monthly treatment of a antiparasitic that the MSF medical team bri

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLUMBIA. Bogota. 1998. MSF psychologist Soraya SALCEDO works with the medical team to evaluate and assess the needs of the children at a school in the Quindio section that hugs a mountainside. During each weekly visit they enroll a new class into the medical programs they offer. The team will also enroll and examine any families that show up. The kids are enthralled by Soraya and press around her as she talks to them. - Paul Fusco

COLUMBIA. Bogota. 1998. MSF psychologist Soraya SALCEDO works with the medical team to evaluate and assess the needs of the children at a school in the Quindio ...

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Agua Blanca. The gangs rule, kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy and rehabillitation clinic. The young come for help and never ask other victims about past affilliations. Rolando's mother sits between John and her son during a solemn, introspective ride to the rehabilitation clinic for therapy. - Paul Fusco

COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Agua Blanca. The gangs rule, kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy and rehabillitation clinic. The young come for help...

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. MSF works in Agua Blanca an area that has received a flood of refugees for years. For thousands of people life is grim, lacking in everything except violence. Milena, MSF psychologist, works with families in their homes. She is working with Nancy, 17 pregnant for the third time- and her boyfriend's mother who constantly fights with her. Milena is commited to rescuing Nancy. - Paul Fusco

COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. MSF works in Agua Blanca an area that has received a flood of refugees for years. For thousands of people life is grim, lacking in ev...

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. MSF works in Agua Blanca an area that has recieved a flood of refugees for years. F - Paul Fusco

COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. MSF works in Agua Blanca an area that has recieved a flood of refugees for years. F

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998.
The sprawling refugee settlement Agua Blanca is infamous for its internecine gang w - Paul Fusco

COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998.
The sprawling refugee settlement Agua Blanca is infamous for its internecine gang w

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Agua Blanca. The gangs rule, kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy and rehabillitation clinic. The young come for help and never ask other victims about past affilliations. Twenty two year old John Faber grooms himself. MSF will pick him up and take him to the rehabilitation center fro therapy. A drive- by gunman shot him in the back. He was 16. He was gay. He's paraplegic. - Paul Fusco

COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Agua Blanca. The gangs rule, kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy and rehabillitation clinic. The young come for help...

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. MSF sociologist Maria Del Rosario grew up in Agua Blanca, the sprawling settlement with thousands of desperately poor refugees who sought peace but still live under a pall of violence. Rosario freely walks throughout the barrio to visit and work with clients, to bring to others word about MSF and to gauge MSF' s standing in the barrio. This single women has 5 children. Her parents live with them. They all survive on the little money that she earns. - Paul Fusco

COLOMBIA. Calli. MSF sociologist Maria Del Rosario grew up in Agua Blanca, the sprawling settlement with thousands of desperately poor refugees who sought pea...

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Agua Blanca. The gangs rule, kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy and rehabillitation clinic. The young come for help and never ask other victims about past affilliations. Juan Carlos was deliberately shot in the lower back not to be killed but to be crippled. His girlfriend Rosa Jolanda works with Juan in his rehabilitation. - Paul Fusco

COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Agua Blanca. The gangs rule, kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy and rehabillitation clinic. The young come for help...

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Agua Blanca. About 20 ago years Luis Carlos fled the violence of his home village and found Agu Blanca. He was appalled by the chaos and violence but even more so by the total disregard by the city government. He decided to activate the people to join him in making demands to the city assistance. Their efforts became successful and they continue to petition. He works nights so he can work with the people. His house attracts crowds. Now they are collecting data to get help for injured persons. A family with an in-home store look out on their world through steel bars. - Paul Fusco

COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Agua Blanca. About 20 ago years Luis Carlos fled the violence of his home village and found Agu Blanca. He was appalled by the chaos...

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Agua Blanca. The gangs rule, kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy and rehabillitation clinic. The young come for help and never ask other victims about past affilliations. Ex-pandillero, gunshot victim Wilson Marrquin is an enthusiastic participant at MSF's rehabilitation and therapy clinic in Agua Blanca. After a session Wilson lifts himself into his wheelchair. He's taken his first steps and is committed. - Paul Fusco

COLOMBIA. Calli. 1998. Agua Blanca. The gangs rule, kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy and rehabillitation clinic. The young come for help...

COLOMBIA. MSF. - COLUMBIA. Calis. 1998. Agua Blanca. The gangs rule and kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy and rehabilitation clinic. The young came for help and never ask other victims about past affilliations. Ex- pandillero and gun shot victim Wilson ia an enthusiast participant in MSF's rehab sessions where he 'walked' for the first time in six years. - Paul Fusco

COLUMBIA. Calis. 1998. Agua Blanca. The gangs rule and kill and maim each other. MSF has the only therapy and rehabilitation clinic. The young came for help and...

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