Category: Health

Cleaning Kakuma’s dirt, recycling waste and environment

Post author By KANERE
Post date December 31, 2022

By Tolossa Asrat – KANERE Volunteer Writer, December 2022

In 2019, refugees in Kakuma Refugee Camp piloted a waste management project to keep their environment clean. Based on the principles of environmental sustainability, Fraternity for Development Integrated (FRADI) – a refugee-led organization – initiated a recycling project in Kakuma 2 to safeguard the environment and health of the community. By converting waste into useful products, the organization has now embarked on a journey to address pressing social, environmental and climate challenges.

Environment: Cleaning Kakuma’s dirt – Photograph by Tolossa Asrat/KANERE

Tags #KanereNews, kakuma, kanere, kenya, refugees

Community and Culture Education Health Humanitarian Services Kakuma Town and Kenya

Three People died by venom, Scorpion Project Center

Post author By KANERE
Post date December 31, 2022

By Tolossa Asrat – KANERE Volunteer Writer, January 2022

Three people, among them, a grandmother and a three-year-old baby, died from scorpion stings and snake bites reported the head of the Scorpion Project in Camp 4 of the Kakuma Refugee camp.

Parabuthus Maximus, the most harmful and feared Scorpion in Kakuma / Photograph by Godfrey of Scorpion Project Center

Tags ##Scorpion, #KANERE, kakuma

Education Health Humanitarian Services Kakuma Town and Kenya News Updates

Refugees receive first doses of Covishield: UNHCR calls for vaccine equity

Post author By KANERE
Post date June 30, 2021

By Tolossa Asrat KANERE Volunteer Writer, June 2021

In April 2021, during World Health Week, the first phase of the COVID-19 vaccination program for refugees and asylum seekers living in Kakuma and Kalobeyei was being rolled out at Ammusait General Hospital – aka Clinic 7 and Natukubenyo Health Centre, respectively.

COVID-19 vaccine rollout in Kakuma and Kalobeyei May to June 2021, targeting frontline humanitarian workers: Photo credit/KANERE

Tags #Covid-19, #Covid19prevention, #Healthcare, #Immuninization, #KanereNews, #Refugees, #Vaccines

Arts Health Opinion

Numb, Calm

By Noel Arow Bol – Kakuma resident
I am tuned in, Radio and TVs
News of death after death, death
Italy, Spain, world grieves in tears
Lives claimed by corona, no proper burial
Grief after grief, grief

Tags #artist, art, kakuma, KanereNews, poem, poetry

Community and Culture Education Health Human Rights Humanitarian Services Kakuma Town and Kenya News Updates

Gender-Based Violence and COVID-19

Post author By KANERE
Post date November 30, 2020

Lizala Alfonze – KANERE Staff Writer November 2020

Over the past seven months, cases of sexual and gender-based violence have increased due to the COVID-19 pandemic. With the measures put in place to curb the spread of the virus, the operation of schools, sports events, businesses and most social activities has been affected. This situation forces interaction that used to be limited as many people are forced to stay at home almost every day.

Center for Women and Girls in Camp 4, Kakuma Refugee Camp – GBV / KANERE

Tags #WomenRights #16days #orangetheworld #SGBV #GBV #16DaysOfActivism #UN #KANERE #Refugees #Reporting #KANERE #Press

Community and Culture Education Health Humanitarian Services Kakuma Town and Kenya News Updates

A VIRUS. A CAR-MOUNTED LOUDSPEAKER. A STORY

Post author By KANERE
Post date November 30, 2020

Shirley Owenga – KANERE Guest Writer November 2020

When you think of a refugee camp in Kenya, you might imagine the rumble of canter trucks carrying food; wind blowing through rugged tents; a vast dusty field with a patch of grass here, a patch there; countless children playing make-shift games in second-hand clothing.

A child wearing mask in host community neighborhood during Kanere’s broadcasting sessions in Kalobeyei Village one, October 2020/KANERE

Tags #Covid-19, #Kakuma #KANERE #Kalobeyei #offlinebroadcasting #RefugeePress #Refugee-Lead #journalism #KanereNews

Business and Development Health Humanitarian Services News Updates

CORONAVIRUS PREVENTION STRATEGIES AFFECT RESIDENTS OF KAKUMA

Post author By KANERE
Post date April 13, 2020

By Santos Madhieu – KANERE Staff Writer, April 2020

To prevent the spread of Covid-19, the Government of Kenya called for the closure on March 22nd of social venues such as sporting grounds, bars and hotels, with the exception of takeaway (carry-out) services. Movement in and out of the country is restricted, and a curfew from 7 pm to 5 am was put in place on March 25, 2020.

Businesses owned by Kakuma refugee traders are feeling the impact of this polices,and this week, I met Machar MalithGeu, a businessman who owns a video hall in Hongkong market where many youths gather each day to watch movies and games. The video hall is a major source of income for Machar and his family.

Tags #Covid-19, #Covid19prevention, #FrankoHotel, #kakumarefugeecamp, #refugeetraders, business

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INFORMATION DISSEMINATION FROM NGO’s IN RESPONSE TO COVID-19 IN KAKUMA REFUGEE CAMP

Post author By KANERE
Post date April 13, 2020

By Hibo Mohammed – KANERE Staff Writer April, 2020

The residents of Kakuma have been worried about the Covid-19 pandemic, which has affected many countries but has yet to reach the camp. On 13th March 2020, Kenya announced its first case of Corona Virus, and fear rose in the camp when it was reported in The Daily Nation on March 20th that four people had been detained while attempting to enter Kakuma by road. Due to concerns that they might have been infected by coronavirus, they were put into isolation. The three Somali-Americans men were all relatives; the eldest had just returned from the US, and he was accompanied on the road by his son and grandson.

Tags #awareness, #Covid-19, #information, #KanereNews, #NGO's, kakuma, kalobeyei

Feature Reports Health Humanitarian Services News Updates

President of Germany Frank-Walter Steinmeier Visits Kakuma

Post author By KANERE
Post date March 23, 2020

By Qaabata Boru – KANERE staff writer

On February 26, 2020, German president Frank-Walter Steinmeier visited the Kakuma refugee camp to observe a project sponsored by Germany. As a welcome gift, he received a football from pupils of Al-Nuur Primary School.

Tags #kakuma #Kalobeyei #German president #GIZ #refugee camp #KanereNews

Education Feature Reports Health Kakuma Town and Kenya News Updates

7 dead as heavy rain pounds Kakuma Refugee Camp

Post author By KANERE
Post date March 23, 2020

By KANERE Staff Reporter, November 2019

Seven people died in the Kakuma refugee camp after torrential overnight rains, with some swept away while crossing rivers, a zone leader in Kakuma 1 told KANERE.

Tags #flooding #kakuma #KANERE #awareness #Kanerereporting