Patients attend Bol Hospital, in Bol, Chad.

An orphaned boy walks past a wall with drawings depicting rocket-propelled grenade launchers, in Bol, Chad. Many orphaned children, including Nigerian refugees, live in madrasas (Koran schools) and are sent to beg for part of the day.

Maria Hassan (20), in Melea, Chad, was kidnapped by Boko Haram, forced to marry an extremist and had their child, but managed to escape.

The carcass of a cow lies on the road outside Dar es Salam, Chad, in a region badly affected by drought.

Men punt a pirogue through marshy cane thicket at the edge of Lake Chad, in the Chad Basin.

Former member of Boko Haram, Halima Adam, sits in her home in Ngomirom Doumou, Lake Chad.  When she was 15, Halima was drugged, strapped to a suicide device, and ordered to carry out a bombing in the town of Bol, along with two other girls. When local authorities moved in to arrest them, two of the girls detonated their explosives, killing themselves and severely injuring Halima. She survived, but had both legs amputated below the knees. She now does paralegal work, helping other women and girls.

Abdullaye Tidjani (26) was forcefully enlisted into Boko Haram, and stayed with the Islamist group for two years before deserting with his wife and son.

A patient on an IV lies in a makeshift hospital in the village of Melea, near Bol in Chad.

Ababakar Mbomi, an anti-Jihad activist in Melea, Chad, was shot 11 times when Boko Haram kidnapped his wife in 2014.

Women gather water from Lake Chad.

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Living Among What's Left Behind