Toilets, showers, and personal dignity
We’re embarrassed to share this. We’re embarrassed to share this with you, about the minus-five-starred facilities forced upon us. These are things we would rather not talk about. We’re just like most of society in any corner of the world; we like privacy in the bathroom and to be clean and dignified. Before we came […]
Markets in Camp
In the camp, we have many markets. Market madness was once a joke term for many of us. Who doesn’t like a market? But for us, those days are gone and with no money to spend, we only go to use our Bamba Chakula card. (Learn more about them in our article Food Rations, Diet, […]
Our shelters and living conditions
A shelter for one person.
Food Rations, Diet, Cooking and Hunger
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) provide our food ration. We have seen allocations becoming less than they once were because of supply shortages and a lack of global funding for the WFP. (From a balanced viewpoint, please read our relevant comment at the end of this article.) Collecting our food rations Our ration […]
Camp Reality for LGBT
We live a miserable and toxic existence, collectively and individually. Please read this. We are stuck in a soulless limbo, each day nothing more than a mere existence. The food rations we are given barely keep us alive. Our mental health and optimism are a struggle to maintain. We are very conscious that our physical […]
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
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 […]
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 […]
