‘Proud’ Tunisians aid Libya refugees

A few kilometres from Ras Jedir is a refugee camp, housing about 17,000 people who have fled the fighting in Libya [Credit: Rama Knight]

The occupants are mostly from Sudan, Egypt and Bangladesh [Credit: Rama Knight]

Most are stranded because their own governments cannot help to repatriate them [Credit: Rama Knight]

A doctor from the Tunisian Red Crescent says: "What we need most now are flights to get these people home" [Credit: Rama Knight]

A trickle of refugees are continuing to cross the border, rolled up blankets under their arms and bags perched on their heads [Credit: Rama Knight]

The camp is littered with discarded water bottles and plastic bags, but signs of domesticity have started to appear [Credit: Rama Knight]

Many tents are draped with drying laundry [Credit: Rama Knight]

And one man has set himself up in business as the camp(***)s barber [Credit: Rama Knight]

Tunisian volunteers, mostly young men with their faces covered by medical masks, hand out bread [Credit: Rama Knight]

Many more Tunisians are giving their time and money to help - something many say would not have happened before the revolution [Credit: Rama Knight]

Their charitable spirit in part reflects their own sense of pride at having overthrown their ruling regime, many say [Credit: Rama Knight]

Most of the refugees cannot speak English or even Arabic [Credit: Rama Knight]

One said he had not been paid for six months and did not know how he would get home [Credit: Rama Knight]

Even when they do reach home, many will have to move again in search of work [Credit: Rama Knight]

For many of the residents of the camp, their journey is only just beginning [Credit: Rama Knight]