25 years of LWF’s refugee support at Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya
Few among those fleeing northeast African conflicts to seek refuge in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in northwestern Kenya 25 years ago could have imagined what is now a city…
LWF integrates students with disabilities into schools in the refugee camp.
Abdulbagi (17) wants to be a pilot when he finishes school, his friend Maliah (18) plans to train to be a driver. “For the big trucks,” he specifies. Abdulbagi is…
LWF Accelerated Learning Program supports students from conflict zones
Rose Imoya Banner is what the little girls call a “big mama”. At the age of 24, the young woman is not only an exception from the other students of the Bahr El Nahm…
Government of Djibouti integrates refugees into national education system
Refugee students in Djibouti will from now on be integrated into the national education system. This was celebrated in a ceremony on Sunday, 10 September 2017 in…
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…
(LWI) - Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya is one of the largest and oldest refugee camps in the world. It is inhabited mostly by refugees from Somalia who started fleeing the civil war and following unrests…
LWF Part of Cross-Sector Coalition Helping Refugee Settlements Go Digital
(LWI) - The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) has joined a high-powered public-private coalition to transform refugee settlements into digitally-connected communities…
Skills enable young refugees to start a new life in back home
(LWI) - A protracted refugee situation in Dadaab, Kenya, means, that many young people are born in the camp or grow up there. As adults, they are encouraged to return to a…
(LWI) - The plight of refugees from South Sudan is set to become Africa’s largest refugee crisis, with the Lutheran World Federation on the frontline in South Sudan and the countries receiving the refugees, including…
