Life inside Kenya’s Biggest refugee camp-Kakuma Refugee Setlement

Life inside Kenya’s Biggest refugee camp-Kakuma Refugee Setlement

Kakuma is a town in northwestern Turkana County, Kenya. It is the site of a UNHCR refugee camp, established in 1992.[1] The population of Kakuma town was 60,000 in 2014, having grown from around 8,000 in 1990. In 1991, the camp was established to host unaccompanied minors who had fled the war in Sudan, Somalia and from camps in Ethiopia, Eritrea,Rwanda,Congo,Burundi,Uganda . It was estimated that there were 12,000 "lost boys and girls" who had fled here via Egypt in 1990/91.

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