Social media is a cold world!!!

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Since coming to the camp, Mahamat has tried to run away and to injure himself. His mother did not know how she could stop him from doing it, so she tied him up. Whilst we sat next to him, he hit the sand around him and avoided any kind of eye contact. After a while, he let me touch him. And when I untied him and tried to walk with him a little way, a smile spread across his face. Mahamat spent three years kneeling down like that, his muscles have shortened, he can hardly walk and he cannot stretch his legs out. His mother tells us that in his early days at the camp Mahamat would tremble violently if there was a sudden noise or if a plane flew overhead. Now, after three years, he's stunned, doesn't engage in contact and lives in a little world of his own.
 
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