i have my images outside the website in a /home/images and i cannot show them on the site

[eluser]dinisptc[/eluser]
i have my images outside the website in a /home/customerfiles and i cannot show them on the site

/home/pedro/customerfiles/2/3/avatar/orkos.jpg

i am doing like this :

Code:

<img src="&lt;?php echo $images_thumb_dir.$project['avatar']; ?&gt;" title="" alt="avatar_&lt;?php echo $project['id']; ?&gt;" width="120" height="80"/>

and its not working


thanks
Pedro