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Speciose Mukakibibi shows the scar that a man wielding a machete slashed across her face during the genocide in Rwanda. She was pregnant when she fled her home in Runyinya—but that didn’t stop him from attacking her. Three of her five children were ultimately killed.

A man cries out surrounded by dead bodies in the Kibeho refugee camp in Rwanda. A year after the genocide of the Tutsis, members of the Tutsi-led Rwandan army opened fire in an attempt to clear the camp, killing about 4,000 Hutus and leaving more than 95,000 children orphaned.

Save the Children and International Committee of the Red Cross had displayed them on bulletin boards in the offices of NGOs and in camps for displaced survivors in a search for any living relatives of the children.

Kigali, Rwanda In 2014 photographer Jenny Matthews came across an old trunk of Polaroid photographs in the Kigali office of Save the Children. The pictures were of unaccompanied children and were taken after the 1994 genocide.