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Image South Sudanese refugees receive a hot meal at Palorinya refugee camp, Uganda. Photo: LWF/ C. Kästner “Don’t reconvert plowshares into swords” LWF General Secretary Rev. Dr Martin Junge about the famine alert in East Africa and Nigeria, the arms race and migration (LWI) On March 16, the United Nations issued an alert, drawing attention to the famine in South Sudan, Somalia,…
Image A girl from Somalia studies in an LWF primary school, Ali Addeh camp, Djibouti. LWF strongly advocated for girlâs education and against early marriage. Photo: LWF/ Heléne Wikström “Education is light, ignorance is darkness” Refugees speak about the importance of education for girls “Education is light, ignorance is darkness,” says Fatuma Aden Siyad. If this would be be applied literally, the young woman from Somalia lived in darkness for the first eleven…
Image LWF World Service Kenya – Djibouti | Annual Report 2011 Annual Report 2011 of the LWF Kenya – Djibouti program on activities implemented in three refugee camps - Ali Addeh, Dadaab and Kakuma - in the are
