Kenny Ferenchak, Resolve Uganda's field researcher in northern Uganda, reflects on the struggle to respect the humanity and dignity of people displaced by the conflict that partially rely on the international community for survival.

“They’re looking at me like I’m an animal.”

As mere observers to the ongoing food distribution at Pabbo internal displacement camp, my colleague and I were at a loss as to how to respond to the desperately pleading eyes of this elderly man. From what we could see, the staff of international NGO volunteers, consisting of nearly 100 highly-trained and experienced Ugandans, were performing a remarkable feat in orderly dispensing one-month rations to the 40,000 inhabitants of the camp.

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