Honestly

Honestly. Little girl at Nemba refugee camp, East Province, Rwanda.

What can be said? Must one elaborate on a face so beautiful, or are there words eloquent enough to better explain a life so obviously precious? Such would be the case regardless of context; yet, to mention that this little girl is a refugee, living with her family under a small plastic sheet in a country they do not know, one is able to perceive much more in the glimmer of her eyes or in her infectious smile. Need one portray the pitiful conditions in which she lives? For, surely that would be providing part of the truth that her face does not betray. But no- the truth is that this girl has nothing other than what one can see in her face: she has Hope. And if she has Hope, after what she has encountered in her few short years, there isn’t anything that will be able to take it away.

If you come to visit, don't expect to leave with your heart intact.

Click here to see photographs, or here to see Ed and Ed's blog of the trip.