This photo represents the birth and the life before the war (life was good). 

This piece of wood often gives me thoughts about the death of my father. 

Our girls are often violated while they are looking for green vegetables. 

This reminds me of our valuable belongings that were pillaged and carried by militias during the war. 

This inhabited house reminds me of the execution of our brothers near 4:45am by armed groups. 

While the militias attacked, we fled and hid ourselves among the sugar cane. 

This unfinished house is the place where they raped a mother in front of her children. 

This red flower symbolizes the blood that flowed from this raped woman. 

These stones represent our brothers and friends who were innocently killed by militias in 2001.

These flowers (color and sunlight) symbolize the arrival of MONUC when all started to change when we had started to sleep in our houses, no longer in the bush. 

The two parents learned that their child has returned from the army and their smile symbolized the joy and wish that he would reintegrate into the family. 

The child is accepted well in the community and plays football with others.

The child who returned from the army contributes to the work in the community.

The child received his reinsertion kit and he is happy with it. 

The goat symbolizes wealth for the child, but needs a place to keep it. 

The child builds a house but does not have a way to finish it. 

Before the war, I was young and I studied.

I thought of my suffering after having to abandon school. 

When I was a soldier, I was not used to being around my family. 

I showed my wife the scar left by the gun that I carried.

I came back from the army, the life is difficult and my wife refuses to eat these vegetables. 

This tree reminds me of combat — I hid myself in a similar field of trees. 

I come back from the field and I don't have anything to eat. 

I reflect on what I am going to do in this world. 

Life is relatively stable, here I listen to the radio. 

When I found my wife and my sisters, life became more difficult. 

The poverty is striking and I miss utensils in the house, all that there is, is inside. 

When I returned from the army, the lack of assistance made me think of stealing. 

The life doesn't get better at all, we grill corn for the meal. 

My wife prepares beans, she does it while not wanting to do it. 

This one here is my counselor and assists me often because I don't have a job. 

My family welcomed me well when I came back. 

The goat's house that I received for my socio-economic reintegration. 

My paternal uncle, my mother, and my sisters before our case. They always love me. 

The good deeds of reinsertion that we benefited from. 

She regrets that her mother forced her to marry.

She receives money to buy to eat.

She wishes to have shoes. 

The memory of how the militias forced the civilians to become militia members is the way that we joined the armed groups. 

This image symbolizes there where we lived in the army, but also the place where I hid myself during combats. 

The war causes people to flee their villages, the children don't study and no one works. 

This scar shows the harmful effects of the war on civilians. 

These women and children wish and must live in a sure place where there are not bullets firing. 

I remember the assistance I received which helped us survive little by little. 

Some of my friends finished their studies, other became rich, and me, I lost my time and my chance in the army. 

These friends get by themselves to survive, me also, I have to get by myself. 

My sister sews tablecloths, that helps her to bring in money or to cover our furniture in our house. 

That they give us similar stores, that is how we are going to feel well integrated (in the community). 

Since our return, our parents and us we cultivate the fields, but the situation does not change at all. 

The clothes can help many people and that reflects the cleanliness of those who wear them. 

The children play and are happy to live in a village with peace. 

This photo symbolizes the protection by the society (people) and the environment (trees). 

The house represents the shade and the hoe represents the physical force and the defense. 

The dish containing the beans symbolizes the food, fruit of the work of man. The dark part over the photo symbolizes the insecurity, and the clear part, the peace. 

The kitchen represents the food in the house, but the person is worried because of its bad quality and the insecurity in the region. 

In times of peace, the people produce and the food is abundant. 

During combats, it is the tree that protected me. 

The war burned his village.

The casserole pan is empty, the poverty has come and food can no longer be found. 

The life has become difficult, it is necessary to transport the fish from the lake to the center in this basket by foot and it is very far.

We don't know any longer what to do, it is necessary to try all to see where it will take. 

This container reminds me of all the times I went to fetch water from the source, I met members of the UPC militia who invited me to join their group. I refused, but one day, they took me by force. 

This woman reminds me of how my mother chased me from the house because of religion, after I fled an armed group and they took me. 

This casserole pan reminds me of how we suffered to share hot food with our hands, it is necessary to have dishes to utilize. 

This mud reminds me of how we rolled in the mud during military training and these two roads remind me of how we shared tasks on the front line. 

The knife remind me of a sad memory how we killed innocent people with knives. 

This hole reminds me where we were hiding during combat and the pits where we buried the dead bodies on the battlefield. 

This case reminds me of the guard booth that we installed on the roads to extort money from travelers and the woods served as barriers for the enemy. 

This wall reminds me of the pain that we felt after having failed an operation to pillage to steal some goods under the order of our commander, we were obliged to hit the box on a wall for punishment. 

This bush symbolizes the place where we hid when we were combatants and where some of us died in there from poor conditions and sickness. 

This wood reminds me of three essential things: the place of refuge when we were combatants, the construction material of houses and of preparing food. 

This tree reminds me of how I was hiding myself in a tree and escaped death from my enemies. 

This black hole symbolizes the suffering that I crossed to the point where I wanted to die, but the green herbs represent my small hope to survive.

These flowers make me reflect on God, who created them, because it is He who is my father. My birth father chased me away with my two kids, who also do not have a father, because of the rape that we were submitted during our participation in armed groups. 

This photo of me and my children shows how we suffered without food and shelter. We continue to suffer until today.  

This straw hut reminds me of how we lived with our families under this roof before the war. 

We do field work together with other members of our family. 

The banana trees are the fruit of our work, it produces food, beer, and construction material. 

We construct this box for raising chickens symbolizing wealth. 

Here people hide themselves in the bush.  

The children sleep, their mom was taken away by force by the militias, leaving her sandals. 

These children regrouped regret the disappearance of their mothers. 

These children hide themselves in the bush when the militias arrive. 

These orphaned children survive on their own, but are exposed to the dangers of life. 

These child soldiers lie in ambush before pillaging, raping, and robbing peaceful citizens in a village. 

This dirty casserole pan reminds me of where we prepared food in the military camps, some ate, others missed food. 

This house is barely secure and we are exposed to be seen, this anger shows that we have hid ourselves in the dark. 

This abandoned house and chopped tree prove that the village is abandoned, but the greenery is a sign of hope that life will start again. 

The light is a sign of stability but the habitants have not yet returned from refuge after the war. 

We are fed with these fruits during the period of the war and we have survived. 

This young banana tree is a sign of life coming back after the war. 

The landscape is calm but it is in insecurity, I hide myself in a church. 

This photo recalls that before the war we lived well.

At the times of the attacks of armed groups in the villages, everyone fled with small baggage. 

This child is forgotten and abandoned in the village following the war. 

During the war, the village is empty and dirty. 

The bush was the place of refuge and served as shelter for the population. 

These children are hidden in the bush, fearing the combat. 

These people regret the effects of war, because everything has been pillaged in their house. 

The women cook the fruits in the bush to feed their families. 

The woman here regrets to feed her child only with fruits, without other necessary food for his health. 

This woman is injured in the leg by a stray bullet, she doesn't know where to look to eat for her child and cries of hunger. 

The combatants come to rob and pillage the livestock of the population. 

These children cry for their stolen belongings pillaged by the combatants. 

A combatant who takes by force a girl eating a piece of sugar cane to join the group of UPC. 

The children are happy to return to the village after the calm is instituted by MONUC in 2002. 

This demobilized (soldier) is booed by children, that is why he turns his back to them. 

This demobilized woman returns to the village, a child observes it. 

This landscape recalls the entry of armed groups who hid themselves in this forest before attacking the village.

This marsh represents that confrontation between the UPC and APC militias. 

This rock represents the arms depot of the militias. 

This photo shows the place where the population took refuge and passed the night.

This image shows how many people in the community fled affected by the war, the abandonment and destruction of houses.

This image represents how many military groups ambushed the people to pillage the population, the white stones represent money.

En route to the market, this girl accompanies her mother, then taken by force to join an armed group.  

The joy of autonomously finding each other with the utensils that were pillaged at the civilians' houses.

These chickens represent a blessing for this family, seen by the militias, who did not see people and instead took the chickens.  

The color red shows the blood pooling for the security of the region, even with a guard dog.

The education of the community on the rights of the child and his acceptance in his biological family. 

Despite the participation of the child in the armed group, the mother has hope that life continues. 

A representative of a NGO who is in charge of protection and reinsertion of children in the community. 

The child soldiers who are not satisfied with the reinsertion decide to bring the moto to sale. 

The field workers of an NGO injured and stoned by the child soldiers. 

These goats represent the support that children benefitted from for their reintegration in the community. 

The members of the community manifest their discontent of supporting child soldiers (criminals, rapists, represented by this poison in this glass).