Refugee Bill Clinton Hadam finds a comfort zone in elite Olympic training. And his family now includes its first US citizens – newborn twins.
Until they were 6, Bill and his friends Emmanuel and Jean-Jacques lived together in Mkugwa, a camp of 2,000 Central African refugees in Northwest Tanzania. Their parents were close friends, and the boys grew up sharing meals, soccer games, wheelbarrow rides. Then, in October 2006, everything changed.
Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
Dear Bill and Igey,
Mary Wiltenburg looks back on her year with Bill Clinton Hadam, a 9-year-old Tanzanian refugee now living in the United States.
Tanzania is in the midst of a massive push to rid the country of hundreds of thousands of refugees who've been living in United Nations camps within its borders. On the eve of the camp closing, a glimpse of life in two camps in northwestern Tanzania: Mtabila, home to 40,000 Burundians, and Kanembwa, home to 2,000 mostly Congolese refugees.
Photos by Mary Wiltenburg
Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
Neema's son Briton "Toni" Joseph, on our final day together
Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
Mary Wiltenburg, for the Pulitzer Center
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