Risk Journey: Camp and Drc Army

risk journey: The family decided to risk the journey to a refugee camp in Tanzania; it was the best bet for survival, according to The Chronicle Herald. That same year Makene Kitwanga, also nine years old, headed for the same place, the Nyarugusu refugee camp in Kigoma, Tanzania, setting out with her uncle after the death of her parents and grandfather. His father, pressed into service by the DRC Army on numerous occasions to haul equipment and supplies, was in poor health and unlikely to survive another round of forced service. Makene and Akili lived in Nyarugusu camp, housed in tents, with approximately 150,000 of their compatriots for the next 20 years. They left the camp, with their growing family, in March of this year, sponsored by a community group in Sherbrooke, Nova Scotia. It was there that they met and 'in the midst of hardship,' Akili said, they agreed to marry. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.