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From arrival to recognition: A family’s first step to safety in Kakuma

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From arrival to recognition: A family’s first step to safety in Kakuma

A mother with her three young children at a reception centre in Kakuma.

Nyamam, 25, and her three sons at a reception centre in Kakuma after fleeing conflict in South Sudan.

UNHCR helps to save lives and build better futures for the millions of people forced to flee their homes.

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency works to ensure that everybody has the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge, having fled violence, persecution or war at home.

Since 1950, we have faced multiple crises on multiple continents, and provided vital protection and assistance to refugees, asylum-seekers, internally displaced and stateless people, many of whom have nobody left to turn to.

We help to save lives and build better futures for millions forced from home.

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