Category Archives: IDPs

Three Times the Sadness

Right after P., S., and I arrived at the camp, we met Beatrice, her sister Nekesa, Beatrice’s daughter, and the newest members of their displaced family: triplets, born in the IDP camp one month earlier. In a space smaller than … Continue reading

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Bread and Roses

All across Kenya, camps have been established to deal with the post-election humanitarian crisis. The camps came into being after the political fallout here took on ethnic dimensions, and thousands of women, children and men were forced out of communities … Continue reading

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