Qualla: Kakuma https://qualla.com/kakuma en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:29 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/s/b/8/v/kakuma-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Kakuma https://qualla.com/kakuma Kakuma: Introduction https://qualla.com/kakuma/ Photo credit D. Willetts, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo. In 1992, thousands of children arrived at a dusty patch of northwestern Kenya with almost nothing, having walked for months and across borders to escape a war that had swallowed their childhoods. They were the unaccompanied minors of Sudan's civil war, the boys and girls the world would come to call the Lost Boys, and Kakuma was built to receive them. More than three decades later, the camp has not closed. It has grown into something its founders never planned: a sprawling, semi-permanent city of the displaced, wedged between two dry riverbeds in the Turkana desert, home to a couple of hundred thousand people from across Africa who are still, in the eyes of the law, only passing through.

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/b/8/v/kakuma-wp/sb8v-kakuma-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Kakuma: The Children Who Walked https://qualla.com/kakuma/ Photo credit The original uploader was Acntx at English Wikipedia., CC BY-SA 3.0. Kakuma's origins lie in one of the great forced migrations of the late twentieth century. As Sudan's long civil war tore through the south in the late 1980s, tens of thousands of children, most of them boys, were separated from their families and set off on foot in search of safe...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/b/8/v/kakuma-wp/sb8v-kakuma-the-children-who-walked.mp3 0:06 2 full Kakuma: A City That Was Never Meant to Be https://qualla.com/kakuma/ Photo credit Mr.matija.kovac, CC BY-SA 3.0. Kakuma was designed as a stopgap, and it became a home. Today the complex spans four sections, Kakuma I through IV, with the newer Kalobeyei settlement added nearby in 2015, together sheltering well over 200,000 people. They come from more than twenty countries, with large commun...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/b/8/v/kakuma-wp/sb8v-kakuma-a-city-that-was-never-meant-to-be.mp3 0:06 3 full Kakuma: Building a Life on Rations https://qualla.com/kakuma/ Photo credit PrinceMKey, CC0. Daily life in Kakuma is shaped by scarcity and by rules that hold residents in limbo. The climate is brutal: temperatures climb past 40 degrees Celsius, dust storms scour the camp, and the rare rains can flood the riverbeds. Kenyan law restricts refugees from formal employment, s...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/b/8/v/kakuma-wp/sb8v-kakuma-building-a-life-on-rations.mp3 0:06 4 full Kakuma: Where the World Sends Its Help, and Its Neglect https://qualla.com/kakuma/ Photo credit D. Willetts, CC BY-SA 3.0 igo. Kakuma runs on an unusual coalition of caretakers. The UN refugee agency oversees the camp alongside the Kenyan government, while a roster of organizations divides the labor: the International Rescue Committee for health, the Lutheran World Federation for primary education and se...

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]]> Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/s/b/8/v/kakuma-wp/sb8v-kakuma-where-the-world-sends-its-help-and-its-neglect.mp3 0:06 5 full Kakuma: Talent the Desert Could Not Hold https://qualla.com/kakuma/ Photo credit Joseph Nduwimana, CC BY-SA 4.0. For all its hardship, Kakuma has been a launching point for remarkable lives. From its schools and dusty training pitches have come fashion models like Halima Aden and the supermodel Adut Akech, Olympic runners including Rose Nathike Lokonyen and Lopez Lomong, professional footba...

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