Timothée took part in a pilot scheme at Unesco’s Meheba camp in Zambia. He has since had his medical qualifications recognised.

A pilot scheme at Unesco’s Meheba camp in Zambia is helping to translate refugees’ qualifications. Photograph: Courtesy of Unesco

The armed rebels had first ransacked the hospital where Timothée* worked as a doctor. Then, they went door to door with machetes, hunting down those seen as the wealthiest – the most educated first. When the house next door was burned down with his neighbours still inside, Timothée fled.

Without a chance to grab his passport or phone, Timothée ran through the darkness of the bush of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, knowing he might never see his family or his fiancee again.

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