Dires Time In Dadaab
A mother and her family outside their simple shelter in Dadaab, home to more than 285,000 people. ©UNHCR/B.Heger
Angelina Jolie, during her visit to Dadaab, listens to a refugee from Somalia tell about fleeing from Somalia and her problems in the overcrowded refugee camp. © UNHCR/B.Heger
Makeshift shelters will not protect these young refugees when the rains come to Dadaab in a matter of weeks. ©UNHCR/B.Heger
Clean water is vital in the Dadaab camps. A cholera outbreak earlier this year was contained after humanitarian workers provided urgent hygiene education for the refugee population. UNHCR fears it will be hard to contain a new outbreak.©UNHCR/B.Heger
Refugee women who are clearly relieved to be collecting water. Most families in Dadaab are surviving on a fraction of the recommended daily amount of water per person. ©UNHCR/B.Heger
A refugee woman uses a fuel efficient stove to prepare food. The stove reduces the amount of firewood she needs to collect each day. ©UNHCR/B.Heger
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie talks to a group of women in Dadaab, the world's largest refugee settlement. ©UNHCR/B.Heger
A newly arrived mother with her child by a UNHCR tent in Dadaab. The woman was worried about how she would find her place in the crowded camp. ©UNHCR/B.Heger
Dark skies over Dadaab. UNHCR is worried about the coming rainy season, when some areas of the settlement expected to flood. ©UNHCR/B.Heger
Some 12,000 newly arrived Somali refugees are being transported to Kakuma camp in north-west Kenya to remove them from the flood plain around Dadaab. With up to 7,000 new arrivals each month.©UNHCR/B.Heger
An old woman who recently arrived in Kenya outside her makeshift shelter. She is still traumatized by the bombardment she escaped from in Kismayo, Somalia. ©UNHCR/B.Heger
50,000 children in the Dadaab camps are not attending school. Schools are overcrowded and there is no space to build new classrooms. ©UNHCR/B.Heger
UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie speaks to a man living with disability in Dadaab. UNHCR warns that vulnerable people are at particular risk of disease in the camps during the coming rainy season. ©UNHCR/B.Heger