Food distribution center, Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya, April 2004

A Somali Bantu refugee rests his hands as he waits to distribute cornmeal at the food distribution center. The food is necessary, but not necessarily sufficient - doctors with the International Organization of Migration (IOM) estimate that half the children at the camp are malnourished. Violence over what little food exists is common between the refugees and the local pastoralist population, called Turkana.

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Photographer: 
Matthew Edmundson | EPIIC’04