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In pictures: Life as a refugee

Violence in Darfur has forced has forced nearly a quarter of a million refugees over the border into Chad. Photographer Brigitte Lacombe travelled to Chad in 2007 and visited some of the camps where Oxfam is working.

Children pose for the camera with their donkey.

Women at the market have little shelter from the sun in Goz Beida

Woman take notes during a community meeting in Djabal refugee camp

Builders rebuilding Shariputra school, Sri Lanka.

A women knitting under the shade of a tree

There is no school building in Goz Beida, just a simple blackboard and canvas shelter

A woman in Goz Beida

People taking shelter from the sun in Goz Beida

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