Border Stories: an exhibition to bring home the plight of refugees

If you had to flee your home, and could only take what you could carry, what would you pick up as you left?

At this very moment, many people face violence on a daily basis: oppression, bombing, destruction of their homes…often, in order to survive, fleeing is their only option.

Almost 35 million men, women and children have been forced to make that choice as they leave their villages and their homelands and take the road to exile, in search of safety. These thirty-five million stories deserve to be told; here we will look at ten of them.

These ten objects were given by refugees and displaced people so that Médecins Sans Frontières could tell their stories. By giving one of their personal possessions, each of these men, women and children has entrusted them with a part of their lives. These objects testify to the horror of having their world, as they once knew it, destroyed; they are a constant memory of what has been lost.

Abdul	Albina
Anicet	Foday
Gilberto	Jacob
James	Maria
Zara	Zoya

Thanks to Medecins Sans Frontieres (Doctors Without Borders) for the images and text from their travelling exhibition.