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…
Impressions of Burundi through the World Cup cycle
As football fanatics were watching the 1994 FIFA World Cup, large-scale violence had already broken out in Burundi and elsewhere in the African Great Lakes region. In…
PINE RIDGE, USA/GENEVA – I was born and raised on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation during a time when families were still living off the land. Many of the people still gathered their food from the land, plants and wildlife but this way of life…
The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) and the Ethiopian Evangelical Church Mekane Yesus (EECMY) signed a project agreement in June to promote inter-religious tolerance and…
Between 1 and 7 February 2019, I had the privilege, along with Margaret Sadler, to visit the LWF country program in Myanmar, where we were hosted by David Mueller, the country representative.
![Nyakong talks to her mother (film scene). Photo: Cassette for timescapes, from: The Invisible City [Kakuma] by Lieven Corthouts](/sites/default/files/styles/ino_plain_2x_xl/public/2022-06/still1_nyakong.jpg.webp?itok=kymEjpTE)
