'These children are crucial': the camp classrooms forging CAR's future

With peace talks due to start in Khartoum, a quarter of Central African people live in forests or camps – where makeshift teaching facilities offer hope to a potentially lost generation

Marie was fast asleep when the rebels came. “They wanted to kill all the men,” she says, “and to destroy our homes.”

Three militants burst into her room then moved to the next house, leaving her screaming in terror but unscathed. In a conflict zone where rape is routinely used as a weapon of war, other girls were less fortunate that night. She was just 12.

I teach them to forgive, to move on from what happened in their villages, not to take vengeance and kill more people

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