awaiting aid
Images captured july 15 2017
On July 15 2017 a convoy of trucks and cars pulled into a West Mosul neighbourhood. Volunteers from the One World Medical Mission and the Wasel Tasel Team had come to distribute much needed supplies to an area that had been all but cut off for weeks. As one resident told me, since the fighting had pushed past this area and into the old city the food and water had gone too and residents had resorted to eating cats to survive.
A boy with albinism stands in a crowd of people from his neighbourhood in West Mosul awaiting aid distribution from a local NGO. Since the fighting pushed through the area and into the Old City, this was the first humanitarian aid convoy to arrive in the area in a number of weeks.
Volunteers from a local NGO call out names of residents from a list for them to then come forward to show their identification to be cross referenced against a list they have.
Residents wait to present their identification and once approved, receive tokens which they can exchange for much needed supplies
Volunteers from a local NGO check off names of residents from a list against their identification. Once it has been verified that they are indeed a local resident they are issued with tokens which can be exchanged for supplies such as bottled water, nappies, tooth brushes and baby formula.
Young girls stand in the crowd as other residents from their neighbourhood tower over them.
The view of the back of the aid distribution truck which was the first of it's kind to arrive to this West Mosul neighbourhood in many weeks.
A man carries bottles of water that have been distributed by a local NGO as part of the first distribution of it's kind to this area in a number of weeks