Ordinary people, forced to flee: Meet Fatuma.

Ordinary people, forced to flee: Meet Fatuma.

Twenty-five year old Fatuma runs her own Beauty Salon in Ifo camp, one of Dadaab’s five refugee camps in northeastern Kenya. “I was almost born here!” She says with a bright smile on her face as she smears henna on the arm of one of her customers. She was only a year...
Why I call Dadaab home

Why I call Dadaab home

I was jolted by what Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto said on Saturday, April 11, when he visited Nyeri County in Kenya’s central region. He gave the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees three months to relocate the refugees in Dadaab camps to Somalia,...

Lessons learned from iFellow workshop in Nairobi

Innovation fellowship itself is an innovative initiative of UNHCR. I always feel proud of being a member of the first class iFellowship programme for 2013-2014.  The fellowship offers multidimensional skills to the iFellows such as human centered design and...
iFellow Profile: Oukoum Nadjombe Gbatti

iFellow Profile: Oukoum Nadjombe Gbatti

Oukoum Nadjombe Gbatti Operations Data Manager Duty Station: Nairobi, Kenya Oukoum, also known by the name of Martin, is an Ivorian working as Operations Data Manager in Nairobi, Kenya. Project: IT Solutions for UNHCR Martin is focusing on IT solutions for UNHCR...