Yesterday we welcomed an additional 350 refugees to Nyabiheke Camp where they will settle in to the new shelters that are being completed just ahead of their arrival.
They came in a convoy of buses, faces pressed against the windows, looking for friends and relatives among the crowd that ran down from the camp to greet them.
Their luggage followed in a big truck and was carefully arranged on the ground for them to retrieve. Mattresses, bags of potatoes, tables, beds, basins, jerry cans, and even an improvised wheelchair--the stuff of lives on the move.
When they went to bed last night they were safe, probably for the first time in many months, and they could sleep, knowing that they would not have to awaken in the middle of the night to move again.
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