KENYA. 2016. Young boys doing exercise sessions inside the Kakuma refuge camp. Some of the boys exercise without shoes because they can’t afford them.
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KENYA. 2016. Young boys doing exercise sessions inside the Kakuma refuge camp. Some of the boys exercise without shoes because they can’t afford them.
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KENYA. 2016. Young boys doing exercise sessions inside the Kakuma refuge camp. Some of the boys exercise without shoes because they can’t afford them.
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KENYA. 2016. A team of young boys playing football in the Kakuma refugee camp in Northern Kenya. Football is the only sport young boys play to keep them busy after school. The Kakuma camp is home to thousands of people who have taken refugee here following the outbreak of inter-tribal fighting in South Sudan and eastern DRC.
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KENYA. 2016. Refugee athletes from South Sudan, preparing to take part in the Rio Olympics, practicing under the supervision of a trainer at the Tegla Camp for refugee athletes, near Nairobi
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KENYA. 2016. Refugee athletes from South Sudan, preparing to take part in the Rio Olympics, practicing under the supervision of a trainer at the Tegla Camp for refugee athletes, near Nairobi.
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KENYA. 2016. Refugee athletes from South Sudan, preparing to take part in the Rio Olympics, practicing under the supervision of a trainer at the Tegla Camp for refugee athletes, near Nairobi.
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KENYA. 2016. Refugee athletes from South Sudan, preparing to take part in the Rio Olympics, practicing under the supervision of a trainer at the Tegla Camp for refugee athletes, near Nairobi.
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KENYA. 2016. Piech Pur Biel’s older brother Bidiet,24, left and his best friend, right at the school when the Olympic 800 metre runner used to attend. The three men shared the same room but Bur’s brother says: “Here we have nothing. Pur, our friend and I have only one pair of shoe and a pair of school uniform. This is all we have. Life here is very difficult for us- we have here now for 11 years without having known what happened to our parents and our youngest brother.”
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KENYA. 2016. Refugee athletes from South Sudan, preparing to take part in the Rio Olympics, practicing under the supervision of a trainer at the Tegla Camp for refugee athletes, near Nairobi.
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KENYA. 2016. Refugee athletes from South Sudan, preparing to take part in the Rio Olympics, practicing under the supervision of a trainer at the Tegla Camp for refugee athletes, near Nairobi.
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KENYA. 2016. Refugee athletes from South Sudan, preparing to take part in the Rio Olympics, practicing under the supervision of a trainer at the Tegla Camp for refugee athletes, near Nairobi.
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KENYA. 2016. Refugee athletes from South Sudan, preparing to take part in the Rio Olympics, practicing under the supervision of a trainer at the Tegla Camp for refugee athletes, near Nairobi.
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KENYA. 2016. William Ario, the 11-year-old brother of Anjelina fled South Sudan in 2015 to join her sister at the Kakuma refugee camp. He says: “I would really like to watch my sister run at the Olympics, but we have no television set at the camp.”
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KENYA. 2016. Mary, the aunt of refugee athlete Anjelina Nadai, who will compete in the women’s 1500 meters at the Rio Olympics, sits in the courtyard of her house inside the Kakuma camp. The 28-year-old mother of four has been taking care of both Anjelina and her brother after they fled from South Sudan. She says: “In 2002 when Anjelina fled the war to travel to Nairobi alone, she found woman who was willing to take care of her, but after sometime she run out of money and Anjelina had to come here to the Kakuma refugee camp to stay with me. I am very proud of Anjelina and I hope she will succeed and come back to change to help her country, South Sudan.”
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KENYA. 2016. Mary, the aunt of refugee athlete Anjelina Nadai, who will compete in the women’s 1500 meters at the Rio Olympics, sits in the courtyard of her house inside the Kakuma camp. The 28-year-old mother of four has been taking care of both Anjelina and her brother after they fled from South Sudan. She says: “In 2002 when Anjelina fled the war to travel to Nairobi alone, she found woman who was willing to take care of her, but after sometime she run out of money and Anjelina had to come here to the Kakuma refugee camp to stay with me. I am very proud of Anjelina and I hope she will succeed and come back to change to help her country, South Sudan.”
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KENYA. 2016. Sudanese Grace Apule, aged 19, was one of the budding athletes who has returned to the Kakuma refugee camp to continue with her studies after failing to make the grade in Nairobi. She says “ the Nairobi athletes’ training camp was great because we had to practice with the coach and learn the right moves but the only thing I missed very much was to be at school.”
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KENYA. 2016. Portrait of young Somali girls at school who fled the war in their home country and came to live in the kakuma refugee camp.
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KENYA. 2016. Kakuma refugee camp.
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