Fideline Poga Za, 13, in the Batanga transit centre for refugees from Central African Republic (CAR). When Seleka forces arrived in Fideline's village, her family hoped that they would be able to stay and peacefully coexist with the armed men. They soon discovered this would be impossible. Fideline and some other children were playing near the river when Seleka soldiers got into an argument with a businessman. He refused to give his money to the gunmen so they dragged him to the village centre and as Fideline and her friends watched they shot him dead. Fideline ran home in tears, where she told her family what had happened. Her father decided that they had to leave immediately. Fideline, her three sisters, three brothers, mother and father grabbed a few belongings and after hiding overnight in the forest beyond the village, they boarded a boat, and two hours later arrived safely at Batanga. The most important thing that Fideline was able to take with her, were the notebooks that she holds in this photograph. An excellent student, Fideline one day hopes to be a minister in her country's government. "I couldn't take my school bag, my shoes, or the coloured ribbons for my hair," she recalls, "but I did bring my notebooks and my pen." Holding her school books, all of which bear an image of the African continent on their covers, she says, "we have suffered so much. My father is out of work and my mother goes to the fields all day. I want to study so that I can become someone. I want to study."