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Girls assemble in a school yard in Dadaab refugee camp, Kenya. Education is a focus of LWF work in the camp. Photo: LWF/Kenya

Transforming lives of refugee children

The challenge of providing primary education for all in Dadaab refugee camps

(LWI) - If she had the nationality of the country in which she lives, Sowdo Mohamed Kilas, 18, would have been admitted to one of the best secondary schools in…

Dadaab refugee camp resident, Jinay, says it's time we Itâs time we recognized elderly people as a resource in the community. Photo: LWF Kenya

A better place for the elderly

LWF supports aged refugees in Dadaab camp, Kenya

(LWI) - Being old is not always easy, Jinay can attest to that. “You struggle each day to manage every day life – and to feed your family,” she says. The refugee from Somalia is 75 years…

New arrivals at the Ifo refugee camp receive an LWR baby kit as well as other non-food items as they are formally registered during the reception process in Dadaab, Kenya. The Ifo settlement is the oldest of the camps in Dadaab, dating back to the early 1990s. Photo: Jonathan Ernst/LWR (2011)

Kenyan court decision stops Dadaab closure

Basic principles of international humanitarian law upheld

(LWI) The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) is grateful that basic principles of international humanitarian law were upheld when the High Court of Kenya ruled against the planned…

LWF helped Anek to return to school and pursue higher education while caring for her child. Photo: LWF Kenya

LWF helps teenage mothers finish high school

Combining education and protection for girls in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya

(LWI) – It’s the beginning of a new year for Anek (16, name changed), a South Sudanese refugee in Kakuma refugee camp. As one of 4,000 secondary school students in…

South Sudanese refugees receive a hot meal at Palorinya refugee camp, Uganda. Photo: LWF/ C. KÃ¤stner

“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,…

Students in the special needsâ education unit at Fashoda Primary School perform a traditional dance. Photo: LWF/Ann Kathure

Building a future with hope

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…

Maliah and Abdulbagi joke with a teacher, as other boys look on - the boy's primary school is mixed with students with and without disabilities learning together. Photos: LWF/ C. KÃ¤stner

Deaf students in Kakuma aim for the sky

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…

ALP students at Bahr El Naam Girls Primary school in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. Photo: LWF/ C.KÃ¤stner

A second chance in Kakuma

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…

LWF Country representative Lennart Hernander hands out the school books from the new curriculum to first year students. Photo: LWF Kenya-Djibouti

“Laying a foundation for the future”

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…

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/ HelÃ©ne WikstrÃ¶m

“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…