Tania Tuzizila, aspiring midwife and a survivor of civil war in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is fretting over which clothes to pack for her three-month volunteering stint in northern Cambodia.
“Because of the culture there we have to cover up, and I’m worried that I don’t have enough appropriate clothes,” she said. “I’ve got these long dresses, but now I’m being told that we should wear tops and trousers, so I’m not sure?”
Tuzizila, now 22, was 3 years old when she escaped war-torn DRC with her mother and five siblings. Displaced along with 2 million others, Tuzizila and her family resettled in public housing in South London where, she said, volunteers and charities helped look after her and eventually brought her along to give out food to London’s homeless.