Pictures from a story we did up way north in Kenya. It’s a nine hour bus ride from the nearest real town, which doesn’t count the 7 hours you can spend waiting for the bus to leave or the 6 hours you spend getting to the bus stop. Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya Kakuma Refugee Camp [...]
A magistrate on his first day on the job at Lodwar court An Ethiopian man inside a pool hall inside the camp How did they get a pool table??? The camp library built by the Japanese. Inside a very nice Ethiopian restaurant inside the camp. I love hearing about how the informal economics of these [...]
Children play in a graffiti filled Kakuma Court House. Why? Because the court only meets a few times a year… How can you have justice without a functioning legal system? It is very difficult. The men in the Equatoria community for example have their own jail cell and security office funded by the LWF to [...]
working on writing something more significant about kakuma camp… till that post here is one about traveling and signs, both crazy parts of kakuma. The nice road from Lodwar to Kakuma. Sticking your camera out of a speeding matatu never stops being fun So close to Sudan… but my parents wouldn’t be happy to hear [...]
I’m working hard to get as many pictures up as possible from the camp, but am starting to get very tired after my 20 hour journey on buses and matatus back to Kisumu… The camp is absolutely nothing like you would ever think a refugee camp would be. Seriously. Unless you are much better read [...]