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Family 448, Kenya
$45

Family 448

Family 448, Kenya
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Family 448

Family 448, Kenya
Monthly income
$45
$45
Monthly income

C lives in Kalobeyei Village 1, Kenya, with her five children. She arrived in Kalobeyei in 2017 and is a single parent. She spends her time sweeping the household, washing dishes, cooking, fixing her walls and visiting the market.

C lives in Kalobeyei Village 1, Kenya, with her five children. She arrived in Kalobeyei in 2017 and is a single parent. She spends her time sweeping the household, washing dishes, cooking, fixing her walls and visiting the market. C has never been to school, but is happy to be in Kalobeyei because she can send her children to school. However, she says that the cost of uniforms and books brings her a lot of stress. C is unemployed and receives money each month from the World Food Programme through a cash transfer programme called Bamba Chakula. She sometimes has to sell some of the food received through Bamba Chakula so she can pay to grind her maize. Often she only eats porridge until dinner, and sometimes she goes to sleep without an evening meal because of the high cost of food. She is severely food insecure. One day she hopes to have money so she can renovate her house and lay down carpet. This family lives in a refugee camp, with very little money, but with access to aid in the form of food from the World Food Programme and several assets on their house, such as the solar panels and the cooking pots, are provided by the UNHCR.

Photo by: Kakuma Film Team, Refugee Economies Programme at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford,
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Photo by: Kakuma Film Team, Refugee Economies Programme at the Refugee Studies Centre, University of Oxford,
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