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Dadaab Refugee Camp
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Resource ID
101678
Access
Open
Contributed by
Sarah Easter
Uploading member
CARE Austria, CARE Germany
Consent form provided?
Yes
Consent Form Uploaded?
Yes
Region
Central and East Africa
Country
Kenya
Theme
Humanitarian response, Food security and nutrition, Climate Change and Resilience
Keywords
Conflict, Distribution, Food, Housing/Shelter, Hunger/Malnutrition, Hygiene/Sanitation, Refugee/displaced people, Refugee camps, Toilets/Latrines
Additional Keywords
Refugee, Dadaab, Somalia, drought, flood, sanitation, children,
Credit
Sarah Easter
Copyright
CARE/Sarah Easter
Date Image Taken
17 April 23
Caption
Dadaab Refugee Camp - B-Roll video. New arrivals line up for profiling. Their pictures are being taken, their fingerprints scanned and they recieve a food ration card. Here is Isnino Bare Aden, 32, with her children who is being profiled.
Isnino, mother of six, describes how she managed the more than 400 kms from her home in Somalia to Dadaab: “We walked the whole way. It took us one month. I was scared, that wild animals would take my children away and eat them.” Due to the drought, they lost nearly all of their livestock. Her husband remains in Somalia to save the ones that are still alive. “Mostly we didn’t eat on the way. Sometimes we found people along the way who gave us food,” Isnino concludes
The Dadaab Refugee Camp was constructed in 1992 in which 245.000 registered refugees and more than 130.000 new arrivals live today, of which 90% are from Somalia. The current drought in East Africa causes a new influx of refugees crossing the border into Kenya to settle in Dadaab. There has not been enough rain in the last six consecutive rain seasons. Whole fields have had no harvest for nearly three years. Livestock are dying. Water supplies are drying up. Food is lacking. Somalia is especially hit hard. In April in rains have finally come, but heavy rains has caused floods and there are currently high concerns for a large Cholera outbreak in the camp.
New arrivals must create a profile to be officially registered as a refugee. Some have waited two months for their names to be called by a representative of the Department of Refugee Services, while they have had no access to food rations or other humanitarian aid. Most of them are exhausted from the arduous journey. The children are malnourished. Some families have not eaten for several days.
Some flee their home country by jumping on the back of a truck full of bodies huddling closely together in order to make room for one more family. Some have saved enough money for several months to take a public bus to the border. Many others walk. They walk for days, weeks and sometimes even months through the dry desert without food or water.
CARE supports the new arrivals with the supply and installation of micro water storage facilities which can hold to up to 5,000 liters of drinking water and distributes plastic jerricans, constructs communal latrines and supplies soap bars to all new arrival households residing in the outskirts. Additionally, women and girls are provided with menstrual hygiene dignity kits.
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