Exploring away from the tourist trail while on holiday in the Gambia, photographer David Forsyth, came across a community of refugees living in wretched conditions - rundown housing, scarce food and inadequate medication, exploited by local employers - and claiming that for the past ten years they had been denied help with basic needs by the local UN Refugee Council office.
Although Geneva periodically sends representatives to the Gambian UNHRC, when a group of refugees gathered outside the office hoping to meet them and explain their plight, local staff called police to disperse the ‘rabble’ before the visitors arrived.
Over thirty refugees agreed to be interviewed on film, and the community leaders have now presented Forsyth with a signed letter, requesting him to contact the UN in Geneva and make their case known.
The filmed interviews with those brave enough to speak out, taking the risk of local reprisals, can now be seen on YouTube: follow this link
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