Kyrgyzstan four months on - rebuilding

Wednesday, November 10, 2010

  • k01.jpgThe burned down school in Tashlak Uzbek mahala in Osh is being re-built (October 2010).
  • k02.jpgDuring an ACT Assessment Mission to Osh, Altinay Badalova shows the ACT team (Tatiana Kotova, Sudhanshu S. Singh) the burned down school in Tashlak Uzbek mahala.
  • k03.jpgTimur, Kyrgyz, re-building his house in an Uzbek mahala in Osh.
  • k04.jpgGirls in the tent camp in Tashlak Uzbek mahala in Osh (July 2010).
  • k05.jpgSOS in Tashlak Uzbek mahala in Osh (July 2010)
  • k06.jpgGulomjon Jorobaev in grief about his burned out home in Bazar-Korgon.
  • k07.jpgA burned out car in Tashlak Uzbek Mahal in Osh.
  • k08.jpgBazar-Korgon, Jalal-Abad region. "A week ago, this tractor was still on the field" says this man. (June 2010)
  • k09.jpgBarno Khalilillaevna Raimdjonova and her man share a tent with other couples. Their houses were destroyed. At night they are afraid. The trauma caused by the events in June still sit heavily.
  • k10.jpgThe walls for a new house on the same spot, where in July the burned out tractor was standing.
  • k11.jpgA new house under construction.
  • k12.jpgOctober 2010 - Timur, Kyrgyz, re-constructing his family house in an Uzbek Mahala in Osh
  • k13.jpgBoys lean against a car that was burned-out in the violence.
  • k14.jpgA teacher working with her class in a temporary school structure.
  • k15.jpgChildren in the tent camp in Tashlak Uzbek mahala.
  • k16.jpgA woman walks past buildings damaged by the violence.

Images from the second ACT assessment mission to Osh in Kyrgyzstan show the ongoing trauma from the violence in June, and some of the progress in rebuilding. ACT members Christian Aid, DCA and ICCO are working on the reconstruction and psychosocial support in the country.