Veronique Gonoko, who doesn't know her exact age but thinks that she is around 85, at the Batanga transit centre for refugees from Central African Republic (CAR). Veronique is from the village of Zinga, directly across the Oubangi River from the camp. She recalls that armed men "arrived in cars and trucks, shooting and killing along the road. When I saw the gendarmerie run into the forest, I knew there was no one to protect me." She had been making cassava bread when they arrived, but had to leave so quickly that she forgot to bring it. When she escaped across the river to Batanga she had nothing in her hands. The only things that she fled with were the clothes that she was wearing. In this portrait she holds aloft the one remaining sandal that accompanied her from CAR. The other broke when she was in a latrine, though a fellow refugee gave her a mismatched one to replace it. She says that it is difficult to look across the river and see the village where she lived her entire life, but can no longer safely return. Veronique wants to be far away, someplace where she will feel more safe and not have the daily reminder of the home she lost, but no longer even hopes to return to. "I had one goat and one chicken, but I'm sure those were taken by the soldiers on the day I left."