I think that this picture really got to me because of the description. This 8 year old war-orphaned boy, Faustin Mugisa, has machete scars all over his head and body. Not only that, but he lost all of his family. In this picture, he is standing at the Kizito Orphanage in Bunia in northeastern Congo, February 24, 2009. When ethnic Lendu militiamen hacked to death his mother and 7 siblings in 2003, Faustin was left for dead in a pile of corpses. His father later found him alive and took him to the bush to recover. However, his father was later hacked to death by the same militia group. This picture really got to me, because this little 8 year old boy had to go through so much at such a young age. Losing all of the people he loved, being left for dead, and now growin up in an orphanage. I can't even imagine having to go through any of those events at that age.
(REUTERS/Finbarr O'Reilly)
I think that this picture got to me because I felt so bad when I scrolled to it. This war orphaned child was sitting in a cardboard box at the Kizito Orphanage. I have younger brothers, so I think this picture got to me because I can't imagine any child to have to be left in a box at an orphanage..
I chose this picture because you can see the bad conditions that this little girl lives in. If you look closely, you can see that her clothes are raggidy, and she only has one shoe. The huts/houses in the back are also not very clean or in good conditions, and her face is spotted with mud and dirt and she definitely doesn't look very happy. The picture also says that she is an Afghan refugee girl.
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