With the heavy rains that have started in Kenya, the Reception Center at Kakuma Refugee camp is flooded. Refugees arriving from South Sudan are literally walking in five to 10 cm of water, and the center is…
“My decision not to go back to Sudan has not been in vain,” says Makuach Abraham Kuf with a big smile. “You know, had the war not broken out again maybe I would be in South Sudan applying my Early Childhood Development (ECD) knowledge, starting…
After successfully taking part in the the regional Eldoret Dancing Competitions, a dance group from Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya is going on to the Sakata auditions, a national Citizen TV dancing competition. Lennart Hernander,…
LWF World Service Kenya - Djibouti Program representative Lennart Hernander urges leaders to put human rights at the fore of decisions concerning refugee camps in Kenya.
Abdifatah is eight years old but has never spoken. That is the trauma conflict causes. The trauma the education that the Australian Lutheran World Service plans to support can help heal. Impressions from a visit to Ali Addeh refugee camp,…
Jonathan Krause, fundraising officer at Australian Lutheran World Service, met refugees from Yemen in Djibouti’s Ali Addeh refugee camp whose lives have been changed forever.
Jonathan Krause, Australian Lutheran World relief, recently visited the Ali Addeh refugee camp in Djibouti. In this blog, he shares the story of a school bringing education to refugee children.
The literal translation of the name of the refugee camp is “Nowhere”. The Kakuma camp was meant to be temporary one, a place to shelter the “lost boys”, former child soldiers from South Sudan. It has become a town of about 200,000 inhabitants…
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