Surviving Darfur

Staring Into the Heart of Human Suffering

Photographs for UNHCR by Helene Caux

Catholic Charities Migration and Refugee Services along with the Muhammad Ali Center and the Metro Louisville’s Office of International Affairs had co-sponsored this candid and affecting essay of 49 images taken in the Darfur region of Sudan on loan from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). The Ali Center served as temporary home of Surviving Darfur during the months of February and March. Surviving Darfur is a photo essay about refugees in Darfur. The essay is a collection of powerful and moving photographs compiled over two years by Caux while working in the region. The essay documents the unfolding humanitarian crisis in Sudan and Chad, where an estimated 200,000 people have been killed or died of starvation or disease and more than 2.2 million people have been forced to flee their homes. The essay has also been displayed at the following locations: National Geographic Museum at Explorers' Hall, Washington, DC, International Institute of Wisconsin, Madison, WI, US Senate Rotunda, World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco, Truman College, Chicago, and Global Philanthropy Forum, Washington, DC. Click here to see the Surviving Darfur Essay.

Learn more about Darfur at Save Darfur.