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Day one in Kakuma
Our new Executive Director and board just took a trip to Kenya, and it brought me back to the first time I visited Kakuma. I hear that some of the refugees recorded a video message for me and am excited to see it. “It will make you go kkkkk,” they said, which is Somali-text for…
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A silver lining on war
A silver lining of a cloud riddled with bullets – it’s still silver. When I arrived at the refugee camp in Dadaab I was bowled over the head with the monstrosity of what I saw. The millions of lives shattered in the name of meaningless political conflict had me losing hope for a while in…
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Of hawks and chicken and refugees
We filled up at the gas station with no gas, which happened to have gas that day. We were all shocked. It was lucky too because Victor was about to run out. On Thursday we went to a UNHCR (UN high commissioner for refugees)-sponsored event. The intent of the event was to expose the Kenyan…