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Kenya
Posted by joanne.offer on August 11th, 2009
Mohamed is 15 and comes from Kismayo in Somalia. Dahir says: “My father died in the fighting – he wasn’t a soldier, our village was attacked. I also lost my mother during the civil war and I don’t know where she is." more »
Posted in Africa, Kenya, Somalia | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, Somali refugees in Kenya, conflict | 2 Comments
Posted by joanne.offer on August 7th, 2009
Eighteen-year-old Iftin Mohamed dropped out of school when she was just ten or eleven. (Although school is free, families say they have to provide materials like notebooks and pens.) Iftin now has a ten-month old daughter, Magal, who’s been struggling to get over an infection. more »
Posted in Africa, Kenya, Somalia | Tags: refugees, health, humanitarian, Somali refugees in Kenya, conflict, mothers, nutrition |
Posted by joanne.offer on August 6th, 2009
Posted in Africa, Kenya, Somalia | Tags: refugees, humanitarian, Somali refugees in Kenya |
Posted by joanne.offer on June 21st, 2009
Posted in Health, HIV/Aids, Africa, Kenya | Tags: refugees, father's day, fathersday, humanitarian |
Posted by The.IRC on April 2nd, 2009
Posted in Health, Africa, Kenya, Somalia | Tags: refugees, Huffington Post, humanitarian, Joanne Offer in Kenya, refugee camps, Somali refugees in Kenya | 1 Comments
Posted by Kate Sands Adams on March 2nd, 2009
Posted in Africa, Kenya | Tags: refugees, aid worker blog, Huffington Post, humanitarian, Joanne Offer in Kenya |
Posted by George.Rupp on February 9th, 2009
More than 244,000 Somali refugees have fled the ongoing violence and sought shelter in Dadaab in eastern Kenya, where the IRC launched health programs last month. I was therefore very interested in visiting the area during my trip to Kenya. more »
Posted in Humanitarian Aid, Africa, Kenya, Somalia | Tags: refugees, George Rupp, humanitarian, Somali refugees in Kenya | 2 Comments
Posted by George.Rupp on February 6th, 2009
I next visited Kenya’s northwest, the Turkana region, to observe the IRC’s varying work with local communities. The contrast with urban Nairobi is striking. As we drive the one hour from Lodwar to Kalokol, the heat is intense and the terrain is almost like a moonscape – dry and barren, with large rocky outcrops. more »
Posted in HIV/Aids, Africa, Kenya | Tags: refugees, aid worker diaries, George Rupp, humanitarian | 1 Comments
Posted by joanne.offer on February 4th, 2009
Posted in Humanitarian Aid, Africa, Kenya | Tags: refugees, Barack Obama, humanitarian, inauguration, Joanne Offer in Kenya, President Obama, refugee camps |
Posted by George.Rupp on February 2nd, 2009
I am pleased to be traveling in Kenya this week to visit International Rescue Committee programs and meet some of the refugees we serve here. Our first stop was in Nairobi. In the community of Eastleigh, we met one of seven women's groups that the IRC supports as part of our work with urban refugees, primarily from Somalia. more »
Posted in Women, Africa, Kenya | Tags: refugees, George Rupp, humanitarian |
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