A glimpse from our perspective
“The noise was deafening.
I found it difficult to believe that less than ten minutes ago I was sitting comfortably in my uncle’s SUV, chuckling at his light-humored joke, marveling at the East African savannah scenery that melted past us. Little did I know then that in moments I would be forcing my way through a dense crowd of people who were all shouting, pleading words of desperation. Shielding my eyes from the searing sun, I passed through mothers wearily carrying exhausted, limp children in rags, and dozens of outstretched hands reaching for a hope that has always been out of their grasp.
My uncle was shouting something urgently over his shoulder as we hurried through the swarm, but his voice was drowned among the uproar that surrounded us. I don’t know how he could have spoken, let alone shouted; my mouth was so dry from panic that all I could do was mechanically nod and continue snaking through the dense horde on my own haphazard trail.
Shortly, we came to a bleached-looking cement building with a patched tin roof, where a group of familiar volunteers were briskly tearing open crates of pristinely packaged white netting. If I was not mistaken, the crowd had become even more relentless, a mass that embodied human survival in its most raw form. In a spur of the moment, I grabbed pieces of spare tarp and lined them up so that they led to the volunteers. Catching onto my idea, my uncle ordered everyone to stand on the tarp and follow the forming line. But even with the crowd immediately hushed, something was still unsettling; perhaps it was the unmoving, carried forms that began to stifle strained, dry sobs, or the perfunctory manner of 600 people moving in a line; or maybe it was my thoughts echoing ‘Why? Why them?’ answered with a helpless derision, ‘That’s just the way it is.’
Even with the numb silence, the noise was still deafening.”
-Nadine Qureshi
August 2008; Mkumbara, Tanzania
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