Australian mission visits Kakuma camp and Kalobeyei Settlement
Niamh Dobson, Second Secretary (Somalia/Humanitarian) of Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), meets with newly arrived refugees at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. ; Kakuma Refugee Camp was established in 1992 and is now home to almost 180,000 people from eighteen different countries. In recent years the camp has seen a recent influx of refugees fleeing from the war in South Sudan.
Kakuma and Kalobeyei (UNHCR) – The Assistant Secretary of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Gita Kamath, and Second Secretary (Somalia/Humanitarian) of Australia’s Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Niamh Dobson, visited Kakuma refugee camp and Kalobeyei integrated settlement to familiarize with UNHCR and WFP activities in the operation.
The mission, accompanied by Word Food Programme’s (WFP) Country Director and the UNHCR’s Head of Office – Kakuma Sub-Office Mr. Tayyar Sukru Cansizoglu, visited the Reception Centre in Kakuma refugee camp as well as the Kalobeyei Integrated market where they interacted with newly arrived refugees and traders from host and refugee community respectively.
The mission also observed the prototype permanent shelters constructed from Turkana Stone at Kalobeyei settlement.
Niamh Dobson, Second Secretary (Somalia/Humanitarian) of Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), speaks to a refugee at the marketplace in the Kalobeyei settlement near Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. ; The average refugee at Kakuma spends seventeen years living at the camp. Kalobeyei represents a settlement approach, as opposed to a refugee camp approach, to enable refugees to become more self-reliant in the long term. This not only reduces the burden on donors, but also gives refugees a greater sense of self-worth.
The Assistant Secretary of Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Gita Kamath, meets with refugees at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. ; Kakuma Refugee Camp was established in 1992 and is now home to almost 180,000 people from eighteen different countries. In recent years the camp has seen a recent influx of refugees fleeing from the war in South Sudan.
A group of newly arrived refugees listen to the Assistant Secretary of Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Gita Kamath, during a visit by her to Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya ; Kakuma Refugee Camp was established in 1992 and is now home to almost 180,000 people from eighteen different countries. In recent years the camp has seen a recent influx of refugees fleeing from the war in South Sudan.
The Assistant Secretary of Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Gita Kamath, and other aid workers speak with a refugee at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. ; Kakuma Refugee Camp was established in 1992 and is now home to almost 180,000 people from eighteen different countries. In recent years the camp has seen a recent influx of refugees fleeing from the war in South Sudan.
Head of UNHCR Kakuma Sub-Office, Tayyar Sukru Cansizoglu, shows a delegation from Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) around the Kalobeyei settlement near Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya ; The average refugee at Kakuma spends seventeen years living at the camp. Kalobeyei represents a settlement approach, as opposed to a refugee camp approach, to enable refugees to become more self-reliant in the long term. This not only reduces the burden on donors, but also gives refugees a greater sense of self-worth.
The Assistant Secretary of Australia's Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT), Gita Kamath, meets with a trader at the Kalobeyei settlement near Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya. ; The average refugee at Kakuma spends seventeen years living at the camp. Kalobeyei represents a settlement approach, as opposed to a refugee camp approach, to enable refugees to become more self-reliant in the long term. This not only reduces the burden on donors, but also gives refugees a greater sense of self-worth.