Antoine Wamale in the Batanga transit centre for refugees from Central African Republic (CAR). Antoine's wife died of natural causes five years ago, and their only child died many years before that. After the loss of his wife, he lived alone in their home. In April 2013, Seleka forces entered the home of one of his neighbours and killed him in his bed. When Antoine learned of this, he resolved to leave. "I heard that people were being murdered. I heard that the Seleka don't like old men, and that they kill them when they find them." With no surviving family to help him escape, Antoine's neighbour Pelendo led the old man by the hand to the banks of the Oubangi River, then lifted him into a pirogue. The two men, along with three women, crossed in the darkness, arriving safely at Batanga in the middle of the night. The most important thing that Antoine was able to bring with him is the plastic cup that he holds in this photograph. "It is not for nothing that I chose to bring the cup," he says. "For me, I would have been ashamed to ask every day, just to take a drink of water. Having my own cup gave me some degree of independence. People become tired of being asked for things all the time, and eventually they say 'no.'"