Ivory Coast: Displaced families – in pictures

Duékoué camp in western Ivory Coast, where more than 25,000 people have sought refuge. 'When it rains, nobody can sleep,' says Juliette, sweeping away the water after heavy rainfall. 'Those who live under the roofs share a small corner with us. There is not enough space for anybody to sleep'
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Duékoué camp: a woman runs through the downpour. The rainy season, from May to July, is approaching and displaced people still need adequate shelter and sanitation, says Save the Children
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Duékoué camp: three-year-old Audrey walking barefoot after heavy rains. 'All our shoes were left behind in the house when we were attacked. My daughter has no shoes. I don’t like to see her like this ... but what can we do?' says Audrey’s mother, who fled to the camp in late March Photograph: Laurent Duvillier/Save the Children

In Duékoué camp the ground turns muddy and slippery after heavy rains
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Duékoué camp: Sylvain Demao Zouassiehi, 21, sits on the mat where he also sleeps at night. 'During the day a lot of people go outside the camp to look for food, but at night the camp is so crowded that you can’t even find space to walk because peoples’ bodies cover the entire ground,' he says. 'There are so many mosquitoes that bite us, and we don’t have any nets' Photograph: Colin Crowley/Save the Children

Pierre Temenon lost his home and his life’s possessions during recent fighting in western Ivory Coast. He escaped with only his small van, where he now lives with four other family members. 'I’ve lost everything it took me 30 years to accumulate,' says Temenon, a retired teacher. 'At my age, what strength do I have to go on? All my hope for my own future is dead, and my worst fear is that the children of Ivory Coast are going to suffer without direction, education, or security'
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Patricia, 25, sits beneath a makeshift lean-to as her daughter Grace, three, sleeps in the midday heat. 'We don't have anything to eat here. There's nothing, we don't eat,' she says Photograph: Colin Crowley/Save the Children

Sara, 13, sifting through rice beneath the plastic sheeting where she lives with her aunts and cousins in Duékoué camp. 'We just sleep underneath this sheeting. When it rains we all have to sit up, crowded together to avoid getting rained on,' she says Photograph: Colin Crowley/Save the Children

Families seeking refuge in the church building in Duékoué. 'When it rains, several hundred people crowd into the church to sleep,' explains one woman. 'It becomes so crowded that there is not even room to lay down and we have to sleep sitting up.' Many people who seek shelter in the church are suffering from illnesses such as coughs, colds and diarrhoea
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Celestine Goulia, 50, and her mother, daughter, and granddaughter are among those crowded into the church building. They fled their homes during fighting in western Ivory Coast Photograph: Colin Crowley/Save the Children