This website is safe to use and interact with. It is privately administered from the UK, while the content is our own, speaking to you from The United Nations Refugee Camp in Kakuma, Kenya. (UNHCR)

We are reluctantly asking for your help.

We fled from our home countries in fear for our lives, seeking sanctuary from the United Nations. We are a group of 9 gay men and 5 Lesbians, 4 of whom are the respective mothers to 7 children.

Please read how being trapped in this horrible camp is impacting our health and well-being.

Coping with Kakuma Weather

Dry hot wet or windy, Kakuma, in Turkana County, sits slightly north of the Equator. On a map, it’s northwest Kenya, roughly 50 kilometres from the border of Uganda and 70 kilometres from the border with South Sudan. Heat and Temperature Turkana is (generally) a dry hot wet or windy place. Dry and hot is […]

Arriving at Kakuma Refugee Camp

Kakuma Reception Centre - arrival notice board

The Road Trip Checking in Arrival Procedure. We’re questioned when we arrive.After completing reception requirements, allocated to a community within the camp i, marked as such on a manifest identity paper. We were each allocated to an LGBTQ block. The National Council of Churches in Kenya (NCCK)** provides shelter materials to refugees. Shelters are all […]

Our sponsor’s statement.

  My name is Robert Hamilton, also known online as Mr-Robert. I am British and reside in the UK. I sponsor and administer this website on behalf of the LGB group presenting their situation. So I’m at the back end of the website, its design and the formatting of content for optimising the website in […]

Our Privacy Policy

Image courtesy of Pete Linforth on Pixabay General Data Protection Regulations – GDPR Privacy of user’s data. This Privacy Policy aims to meet the legal requirements of the GDPR. Our policy is open, transparent and informative. It relates to the user’s personal data captured, stored, used and secured within the platforms and systems associated with […]

Fahim

I’m called Fahim, a gay 29-year-old Ugandan man. I studied well in primary, college and university; I qualified as a professional photographer and had my own photo studio. My own photo studio, and —— My parents gave me the capital to open a business in Kampala, 2 kilometres from our home. I owned a photo […]

Ratif

I am Ratif, a Rwandese gay man aged 26. In my early years, I grew up with a desire to love males. In Kigali – Rwanda, I grew up in a family where I was the only boy. My eight elder sisters used to date boys whom they introduced to me. In the long run, […]

Kakuma Town, northwest Kenya

An overview of the place called Kakuma town, northwest Kenya. We are in Kakuma Refugee Camp, so this short article is just to put the camp into perspective with the town, which is outside of the refugee camp. Kakuma was once a dusty pass-through town one would hardly notice. It is in northwest Kenya, in […]

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