"Paska Achola cooking for her children outside the remains of the shelter that had been her family's home in Kitgum town, northern Uganda. We had visited Paska and her family that morning, when they still had a roof over their heads. By evening the building had been dismantled, and a light rain was falling on the family and their belongings. I took this photo because I was amazed that Paska, after this and half a lifetime of setbacks, could still find the strength to keep going. At one point she did hold her head in her hands, but that would not have been the image to use of Paska.

The people of Kitgum district have suffered attacks from the Lords Resistance Army (LRA) for twenty years. Paska's husband and two of her sons, Juma Ochieng and Walter Olanga, were abducted by the LRA in the 1990s. She has never heard of her sons again. In 2001 the family had to abandon its village home and come to town.

'I don't have anyone to help me,' Paska told us. 'But for my chiIdren, I am the one. I have to keep going for the children. They have to eat. They have to have clothes to wear. I don't know how they will continue at school, and how Michael will manage. (Michael uses a wheelchair).' Several exercise books made Paska's point, lying wet in the rain among a pile of clothes.

Paska and her family know Oxfam, and had been given a cow in 2005 which was providing them with milk to drink and sell. Oxfam's Livelihoods Officer, Justin Okwir, later came to meet Paska and began to look for ways to help her family find a new place to live."