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Seven years have already gone-by since I met this beautiful girl Amach Mabior Kuai in Kakuma refugee Camp.
By then, the south Sudan war was still fresh and in my imagination, it was to be over soon.
I remember vividly when she mentioned that her worst part of the camp was when she was called a Refugee. “I feel like the world has turned its back on me, but I persevere because life is all about perseverance. I hope one day I will be called a Citizen”
It breaks my heart that 10 years after gaining independence, civilians in South Sudan are still longing for sustainable peace.
Parties to the peace agreements have continually sustained political and ethnic-based contestations, resulting in delays in the implementation of critical governance, economic, judicial and security sector reforms.
Shot on assignment with Morneau Shepell
#kakuma #camp #refugees #portrait #portraitpage #portraitmood #portrait_vision #portrait_perfection #portrait_ig #portraits_ig #portrait_perfection #eyes #war #documentary #jjumba_martin (at Kakuma Refugee Camp -Kenya)
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Kakuma Girls
#kakuma #morneaushepell #kenya #uganda #refugees #girls #education (at Morneau Shepell Girls)
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About 7 years ago, I got to work on a beautiful book about the life of some of the girls living in Kakuma refugee Camp, northwest of Kenya in the famous Turkana region.
UNHCR agreed that it would be valuable to create a school, specially dedicated to girls’ secondary Level education and Working with Morneau Shepell, they built the school in 2013.
By the time, only 2% of the eligible refugee children went to secondary school in Kakuma and a minority of these were girls.
Morneau Shepell secondary school for girls enrolls studious hardworking girls while also helping the most vulnerable girls in the camp.
Told through the voices of some of the young women, the book is a story of friendships between the girls of Kakuma in Kenya and those of Havergal College in Canada, (home of Morneau Shepell) building hope through education. (Penpal style)
#kakuma #refugee #havergalcollege #kenya #unhcr #morneaushepell (at Kakuma Refugee Camp, Northwest Kenya)
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