Comments on: About KANERE http://kanere.org A Refugee Free Press Fri, 17 May 2013 09:37:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: colique http://kanere.org/about-kanere/#comment-8098 Mon, 13 May 2013 20:10:06 +0000 http://kakuma.wordpress.com/?page_id=20#comment-8098 My name is %name&% and first off I would like to say excellent website.
I have got a quick question which I’d like to ask if you don’t mind. What do you do to clear your head and find your center of focus before you sit down to write? Recently I just can’t get my head clear so that
I’m set to give attention to my ideas. I love writing once I get into it, but usually I feel as if I end up wasting the first 10 to fifteen minutes pushing myself to focus. Do you have any suggestions or methods?

]]> By: Uwezo http://kanere.org/about-kanere/#comment-7788 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 05:47:46 +0000 http://kakuma.wordpress.com/?page_id=20#comment-7788 Hi brother
I’m UWEZO LUSAMBO from kakuma refugee camp,im a Congolese by nationality,i want to ask that the scholarship is only for those who finished form four in Kenya? what about us who finished in our country? i have four years in Kenya and i want to go back to school but i don’t have money to support myself,and i can said thanks you for help to Congolese for resettlement but i am not yet given thesame chance? Can you help me for school either? I value education as key for tomorrow’s future. I’m 22 year old and i wanted to go to the school of film making. have a good day, my email is uwezopower@gmail.com/uwezo lusambo power at face book!

Kanere i like!

]]> By: Megarsa http://kanere.org/about-kanere/#comment-7608 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 12:28:15 +0000 http://kakuma.wordpress.com/?page_id=20#comment-7608 I am in kakuma now.i am 4th year university student from ethiopia before i came here.am 21 years old.is there any why i get chance go back to school?

]]> By: Kenya: Refugee-run online news magazine · Global Voices http://kanere.org/about-kanere/#comment-7034 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 17:20:13 +0000 http://kakuma.wordpress.com/?page_id=20#comment-7034 [...] The Kakuma News Reflector, or KANERE, is an independent news magazine produced by Ethiopian, Congolese, Ugandan, Rwandan, Somali, Sudanese and Kenyan journalists operating in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. It is the first fully independent refugee-run news source of its kind to emerge from a refugee camp, and has attracted considerable international attention. [...]

]]> By: KANERE http://kanere.org/about-kanere/#comment-5424 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 17:27:55 +0000 http://kakuma.wordpress.com/?page_id=20#comment-5424 Hi Nikita,

Thanks for your enquiry and writing to us.

We don’t have current active pen-pal programs but could be important to establish! KANERE media is based in the camp! Please feel free to write to us;

Press editor

]]> By: Nikita http://kanere.org/about-kanere/#comment-5297 Sat, 06 Oct 2012 15:07:48 +0000 http://kakuma.wordpress.com/?page_id=20#comment-5297 Hi,
Do you have any current pen-pal programs?

I have a few friends that spent some time in Kakuma and other refugee camps and I would be really interested in writing to someone who is there :)

Nikita

]]> By: KANERE http://kanere.org/about-kanere/#comment-5152 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 20:00:53 +0000 http://kakuma.wordpress.com/?page_id=20#comment-5152 Hello from kanere, please visit kanere face book page here, give yout thoughts, share and ‘like’ it. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kanere-News/161557433968809

]]> By: KANERE http://kanere.org/about-kanere/#comment-5095 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 09:19:16 +0000 http://kakuma.wordpress.com/?page_id=20#comment-5095 Dear Hibo,

Thanks for reading kanere. Your comments are very interesting and thanks for value input you mention. we are delighted to hear camp residents speaking out loud.

Please feel free to write for kanere as i know you are experienced on camp life. we encourage people to directly speak their mind and anything is not limited!

]]> By: Hibo Abdikadir http://kanere.org/about-kanere/#comment-5072 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 12:40:19 +0000 http://kakuma.wordpress.com/?page_id=20#comment-5072 Hey kanere, I hope evrythng is runing smothly. I always think about the challenges that you are going through despite the honourable work that you are doing in this camp! We need this voice!! May God bless us. All the best,

Hibo

]]> By: gamanrad http://kanere.org/about-kanere/#comment-4693 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:16:58 +0000 http://kakuma.wordpress.com/?page_id=20#comment-4693 I’d like to contact anyone who knew me in the camp. I was teaching English through the Windle Trust and I was collecting oral testimonies from young southern Sudanese boys. I just had a call from Festo Bonyo and will put him in touch with the site. You were a brilliant publication. Good luck and keep up the good work.

]]> By: gamanrad http://kanere.org/about-kanere/#comment-4692 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 10:50:38 +0000 http://kakuma.wordpress.com/?page_id=20#comment-4692 I lived in Kakuma between 1997 and 1998. I did research with the wonderful, brilliant Dr Barbara Harrell-Bond. I loved the spirit of defiance and strength amongst the refugees who refused to lose their dignity, even in the camp. I loved the Turkana people who were fierce and proud and whose land people denigrated, but who loved their land. I loved the countryside, its harsh beauty. But I hated the razor wire fences, the humiliating conditions people were forced to live in, the undignity of ration cards, the dehumanising machinery of UNHCR, the corruption which I witnessed against people who were at their lowest ebb. I was surprised and amazed at how life just goes on, regardless, even in a camp. I got married there because I couldn’t afford to go home to marry, and my husband to be only had enough money to come to the camp, marry me, and go home again!

What I would love to happen is for the camp to be dissolved, and the aid to be given to the local host community, in a fair, transparent, just way, along, perhaps, if necessary, with basic educational and renewable energy equipment. I would love to see the issue of climate change tackled right there in Turkana district, in an area which is experiencing longer and more severe droughts year on year, but which is ignored. I would love the cultures of the people in Turkana, and of the peoples of the camp, to all be respected, all the hierarchical thinking which seeped in and created huge tensions between different peoples and different groups to be tackled. And above all, I would love to be there when, as it well could, restoration of the land took place, real respect for nature and culture evolved, and the desert bloomed, as only deserts can.

If there is any way of contacting those people to whom I taught English in the camp, I’d love to know how you all are, and what you are doing now. If there’s any way of contacting those people who were in Compound 4, or who knew me there, I’d love to hear your news. It was a great honour working amongst you and I am proud and humbled to have been a part of the Kakuma community, even though I made countless mistakes, and had huge personal difficulties during my time there. I hope you know that I was there because I utterly respected the people and the place, and that it shaped my life in very many ways for which I will always be grateful.

With Respect, and with Love,

Lucy

]]> By: JACQUES MAHUTA http://kanere.org/about-kanere/#comment-4636 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 12:19:13 +0000 http://kakuma.wordpress.com/?page_id=20#comment-4636 I like this program.

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