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Football keeps young refugees’ dreams alive in Kenya’s Kakuma camp

Football keeps young refugees’ dreams alive in Kenya’s Kakuma camp

As the sun sinks towards the horizon, casting long shadows across the dusty football pitch in Kakuma refugee camp in north-western Kenya, one player – Abdirahman Sheuna – stands out not just for his skillful feints and turns with the ball but because most of the other...

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Yang Yang visits refugees in Kakuma

UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Yang Yang visits refugees in Kakuma

Nairobi, 6 March 2024 – Former speed-skater and Chinese Olympic athlete Yang Yang spent three days in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. This was Yang’s first official visit as a Goodwill Ambassador for UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, a role she sees as crucial to raising...

Global education fund transforming lives in Kakuma Camp

Global education fund transforming lives in Kakuma Camp

  The Education Cannot Wait Program has touched the lives of thousands of school children, ensuring they stay in school, and pursue their dreams. Saidi Abdikadir’s face lights up as he wheels himself out of his classroom in Horseed Primary School in Kakuma...

Congolese welder forges a formidable path

Congolese welder forges a formidable path

Ambitious, assertive, confident, inspirational and tenacious; these are the qualities that define  Mariam Suleiman’s personality.   “There is no work designed for only women or men. Everyone deserves an opportunity to prove themselves,” says the 23-year-old Congolese...

Refugee inclusion is key to new Danish partnership in Turkana County

Refugee inclusion is key to new Danish partnership in Turkana County

Kakuma – In support of the local development plan for Turkana West sub-County, refugee inclusion and better health for all is at the centre of a new Danish partnership Inclusive Refugee Response Partnership. This week, UNHCR Kenya hosted two of the Danish...

Hope for women as farming project bears fruit in Kenya

Hope for women as farming project bears fruit in Kenya

Manirakiza and other farmers are busy plowing their piece of land in perfect sync, occasionally pausing to greet the other farmers. The Burundian refugee’s routine has been the same since she was allocated the piece of land at the Choro farm five years ago. “I...