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Kakuma · KakumaSixteen-year-old Moses Ekadeli doesn't just see a stubborn thorn bush. He sees the next chair he'll build. In the dry heat of Turkana County in northern Kenya, Moses and dozens of other teens living in the Kakuma refugee camp are flipping an ecological threat into a tool for change. They're making head-turning furniture from a plant that most people want gone. The plant is mathenge, or Prosopis juliflora. It was introduced from South America in …Read Article
Teenagers build head-turning furniture from surprising materials: 'A valuable resource'
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Kakuma · KakumaKhaltom Abdalla Abakar was born in Fanganta, a village in Sudan’s West Darfur region. Her family lived in relative comfort. Her mother, a formidable businesswoman, owned three farms, a sawmill, and granaries stocked with sorghum and groundnuts. Her father, Hajj Abdalla, known affectionately as Gorombo, was the village leader. But, when Darfur descended into one of the century’s most devastating conflicts in the early 2000s, all of the family’s …Read Article
After fleeing genocide in Sudan, she’s leading a movement for refugee women in Kenya - Prime Progress NG
Asylum Seekers · Turkana CountyThe Kakuma Refugee Camp in northwestern Kenya is home to over 300,000 refugees. Many have fled conflicts and climate disasters in countries such as South Sudan, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Somalia, Burundi, Ethiopia, and even Afghanistan. With schools, clinics, markets, and administrative zones, the vast settlement approximates the structure of a small city, with a group of local workers helping to run the gamut each day. Among the humani…See the Story
The humanitarian worker raising a community in one of the world's largest refugee camps - Prime Progress NG
KENYA: Salesians celebrate 25-year mission in Kakuma Refugee Camp
The Semi-Formal Economy of Kakuma Refugee Camp
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