The daily struggle to cook a meal

Women living in refugee camps in the Dadaab region of Kenya struggle to find enough firewood to cook for their families.

Photo: Mariangela Bizzarri

This blog post was written and orignally posted by Erin Patrick, senior program officer for the Fuel and Firewood Initiative of our affilitate organization, the Women's Refugee Commission.

This summer I traveled to the Dadaab region in Kenya, where three refugee camps—among the largest in the world—host nearly 300,000 refugees.

The camps sit just 60 miles from the Somali border, in a region that has suffered extreme drought over the last few years. As the conflict in Somalia worsens, the number of Somalis seeking refuge in Kenya has steadily grown. Today, the UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) estimates 4,500 Somalis arrive in the camps each month.
 
In the camps, I met refugee women who talked with me about their struggle to find enough firewood to cook for their families.  

Read Erin's full post on the Women's Refugee Commission blog.