Kenya: Women Refugees Fostering Children at Dadaab Camp

opinion

Without parents, unaccompanied and abandoned child refugees are finding love in foster parents, themselves refugees.

The fourth day of April 2012 was a night like many others. The moon was out and the stars were shining brightly. Across many makeshift shelters in the Ifo Camp, one of the three that make the Dadaab Refugee Camp, the 9pm news bulletin was broadcasting on radio. Ms Rahmo Abdullahi was seated in her kitchen, listening to news in Somali language while preparing super for her seven children. Suddenly, there was a commotion outside her house.

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