When conflict broke out in Kaddy's Senegalese village in early April, she was forced to leave her belongings behind to save her family."We lost everything. When we left, we could not take anything with us. Our animals, our food; everything was destroyed in the fighting."
Kaddy is among thousands of Senegalese forced to flee to The Gambia, according to the country's National Disaster Management Agency, after fighting broke out along the Gambian-Senegalese border, in territory occupied by the separatist Movement of Democratic Forces of Casamance . These sessions, conducted in groups, leverage traditional sociocultural activities, such as regular attaya sessions, to facilitate discussions.