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DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP

DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP. healing and hope in a hard place. Dadaab is the world’s largest refugee camp, situated in north-eastern Kenya. It is home to over 400,000 refugee, most of them from Somalia. It is a lonely place…. …where families live in extremely poor conditions.

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DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP

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  1. DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP healing and hope in a hard place

  2. Dadaab is the world’s largest refugee camp, situated in north-eastern Kenya. It is home to over 400,000 refugee, most of them from Somalia.

  3. It is a lonely place…

  4. …where families live in extremely poor conditions.

  5. Disabled patients often arrive by donkey cart…

  6. …or even wheelbarrow

  7. The makeshift hospitals are overcrowded

  8. Often patients are treated directly on the sand outside the buildings

  9. The famine in the horn has brought thousands of families with malnourished infants

  10. Faces of Famine

  11. Faces of Famine

  12. Faces of Famine

  13. BethanyKids surgeons have worked regularly in the camps since 2004

  14. Falhad’s story – evacuated from Dadaab close to death after several unsuccessful surgeries

  15. Falhad, skin and bones in the back of the UN plane being taken to BethanyKids in Kijabe

  16. Falhad a few weeks later, smiling and almost ready for discharge

  17. Other Somali patients in Kijabe –

  18. It’s all worth it!

  19. FAIR in partnership with BethanyKids in the Horn of Africa Fellowship Agency for International Relief Box 457, Guelph Ontario N1H 6K9 “healing and hope in a hard place”

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