Displaced in Denan - Hardcover

Jarret Schecter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1904563473 ISBN 13: 9781904563471

Publisher: Trolley, 2005

In the Ogaden region of southeastern Ethiopia there is a camp with approximately 10,000 people, officially Ethiopian but ethnically Somali. They live there in squalor, with virtually no nourishment or medicines, and with minimal shelter. According to the United Nations they are not refugees, and as such benefit even less from the marginal assistance that refugee programs can offer. Not classified as refugees, they are therefore Internally Displaced Peoples, or IDP's. The number of IDP's worldwide is staggering, far greater than officially recognized refugees. They number near the equivalent of the population of Canada, for instance. Refugee programs do not reach them. "Displaced in Denan" is a record of the camp and the efforts of a small town in Connecticut, USA, to help the people there. The tragedy of Africa is not just the corruption, the poverty, the wars, the civil wars, the droughts, the famine - as if they were not enough. It is also the profound inability of Western societies, desperate to help with or without their politicians, to understand the tribal, even nomadic, claims to the land. Logic and order, in the shape of international borders and agreements, do not hold sway there. Jarret Schecter's referential work on "The Denan Project" shows how individuals can overcome these bureaucracies, and how desperate the plight of IDP's are with official recognition even less than that of refugees.

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About the Author:

In 1990 Jarret Schecter purchased a Pentax camera. Since then he has traveled the world. Committed to socio-political issues, Schecter believes that photography can bring awareness to social injustices the world faces today. Schecter, born in 1963, lives in New York City. He has published two books, Hermanovce and A Journey in Sight, both published by Trolley.

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