Tag: #refugeerights

Kakuma Teachers’ Strike

By Qaabata Boru & Baluu W. Makuach – KANERE Volunteer Writers, September 2021

Primary school teachers across camps suspended all the classroom activities by sending learners back home.

Striking teachers marching to the UNHCR’s main compound in Kakuma 1, photography /KANERE Sep, 2021

Tags #kakumarefugeecamp, #Kalobeyei, #KANERE, #refugeerights, #refugeeworkers, #Teachers, #TeachersStrike, refugeepress

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Journalist Arrested for Covering Teachers Strike

Post author By KANERE
Post date September 30, 2021

By KANERE News Desk – September 2021

A KANERE journalist was arrested by Kakuma police for reporting on a teachers’ demonstration outside the UNHCR main entrance on the morning of September 10th, 2021.

Tags #CPJ, #JournalismIsNotACrime, #JournalistArrest, #KANERE, #KanereNews, #refugeereporter, #refugeerights, reporting

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Beyond Training: Supporting Refugee Girls Who Believe in Themselves

Post author By KANERE
Post date June 30, 2021

By Tolossa Asrat KANERE Volunteer Writer, June 2021

In Kakuma and Kalobeyei, which host over 200,000 refugees, women and children comprise 76 % of the total refugee population. Of this sum, 49% are women living in dire circumstances which most people would never even wish to visit.

Winnie Achola a resident of village 3 of the Kalobeyei settlement is a beneficiary of live-skill trainings by camp agency: Photo By Tolossa Asrat / KANERE

Tags #Dadaab, #Employment, #Journalism, #Kalobeyei, #KanereNews, #refugeerights, #Refugees, #trainings