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Refugee children, orphaned by the war, are often forced to take care of one another in this conflict.

Marceliene Mbumba feeds her child Jonathan, as Obeba, who is severely malnourished, waits for food at feeding center in Kinshasa.

A refugee, living in a government run camp, peers through a plastic tarp designed for protection against the rain.

Thousands of villagers cheer on a visiting UN delegation who came to this city of 700 thousand people living with no running water or electricity, to investigate the location of the next UN mission. The villages chanted, “Bring us…

Chantis Tuseuo, 9, reaches out to her grandmother as she lies in a feeding center outside Kinshasa. Chantis is severely malnourished. It’s estimated that in the last 2 years, 1.7 million Congolese have died as a result of the war.

Local militia greet a Congo delegation to discuss the on going conflict in the region.

Children displaced by the ongoing war in the Congo often go without food.

It’s a common sight at the ill-equipped Kinshasa General Hospital, a malaria-stricken patient waits to die. A report estimates that in the last 2 years, 1.7 million Congolese have died.

A Congolese woman, upset about the chaotic distribution of rations in the United Nations’ World Food Program, stares down a security guard in the village of Ngungo.

It’s a war where the victims are not only soldiers but children, old men, women and the sick. They die from bullets, disease, hunger and neglect. This is the world of the forgotten - the faceless thousands who live with the terrible reality…