The Lutheran World Federation Kenya - Djibouti Annual Report 2011 Partnership1 Our Vision A society in Kenya and Djibouti which reflects the care for God’s creation and where peace, dignity, harmony and social and economic justice prevails. Our Mission The Lutheran World Federation Department for World Ser- vice Kenya - Djibouti seeks to address the causes and con- squences of human suffering and poverty amongst some of the most vulnerable communi- ties in Kenya, through partici- pation relief and development interventions in partnership with local communities, organi- sations and institutions. Contents2 Introduction 4 Program Overview 5 Ali Addeh 7 Education 8 Income generation 11 Dadaab 13 Camp Management 15 Relocation 17 Elderly 21 Education 23 Community 26 Religion 29 Kakuma 31 Host Community 33 Protection 35 Youth 37 Water 39 Gender 41 Food Security 43 Finance 45 Manangement Staff 53 List of Acronyms 54 Donors 55 Contents 3 Over the past year, I Staff from the Australian Lutheran World Service am reminded almost daily of travel a long way to visit the projects in Eastern Africa how challenging our work is. and along with the Evangelical Lutheran Church of After all, if solving poverty America (ELCA) have responded with flexibility to our was easy, it would have been funding needs. The Church of Sweden has seconded achieved long ago. expert staff to our program, in another example of the way that our relationship with our partners goes Despite the difficulties, we beyond funding. have achieved much. We played a lead role in receiv- ELCA also provides funding that enables us to respond ing and relocating more quickly to the emergencies in Eastern Africa – some- than 150,000 new arrivals in thing for which we are grateful. GNC-HA (the German Dadaab. Over the past year National Committee) was one of the partners who we have managed to increase reached out to staff by funding housing and medical the scale of our activities by costs for us. Our main funding partner, the United Nations High Commission for Refugees, trusts us to over 50 percent, whilst, at the same time improving carry out some of the largest programs in the region – the quality of our programs. We consistently managed a responsibility we take very seriously and work hard to provide at least 21 liters of water per person per day to fulfill. for more than 80,000 refugees in Kakuma and we have improved both the quality and quantity of the water Often, in our work, it can seem like we are trying to supplied to people in the Turkana region – one of the scale a mountain. We can do it, but we won’t be able to areas hardest hit by the 2011 drought in Kenya. do it alone. The 2011 Annual Report has been dedi- cated to partnerships - our donors, our partner organi- Our ability to respond built the trust that all of our sations, the Kenyan Government and the people we partners have in us. Often the support we receive is serve. more than just financial and a number of partners have provided us with help that extends beyond our projects. Lennart Hernander 4 Management Staff Philip Wijmans Country Represetative (January - June) Lennart Hernander Country Representative (July - December) Lokiru Matendo Programs Coordinator Leah Odongo Programs Officer Sofia Malmqvist Programs Coordinator – Somalia program Prakash Rajbhandari Finance Manager Mary Njeri Makumi Deputy finance manager Agnes Kidamba Logistics Officer Beatrice Ngota HR/Office Administrator Valerie Murrey Internal Controls Officer Mairo Retief Area Coodinator - Kakuma Anne Wangari Area Coordinator - Dadaab Robbai Naliaka Project Coordinator - Djibouti 5 Kakuma Refugee Camp Established 1991 Population 90,000 LWF Staff International - 1 National - 201 LWF Kenya - Djibouti Refugee - 440 Head Office Nationalities Uganda, Tanzinia, LWF Staff International - 2 Sudan, South Sudan, National - 16 Somalia, Rwanda, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Congo, Burundi Programs Community Services, Education, Food Security, Protection, Nairobi Gender and Human RightsWater, Camp Management & Host Community Programs6 Ali Addeh Refugee Camp ERITREA Established 1991 Population 19,445 DJIBOUTI LWF Staff International - 2 National - 10 Refugee - 22 Nationalities Somalia Programs Education ETHIOPIA & Income Generation SOMALIA Dadaab Refugee Camps Established 1991 Population 443,280 LWF Staff National - 134 KENYA Refugee - 544 Nationalities Uganda, Sudan, South Sudan, Somalia, Ethio- pia, Eritrea, Burundi Programs Community Services, Education, Protection Programs & Camp Management 7 LWF provides textbooks, school books, writing mate- rial, school uniforms and desks and chairs. The pri- Ali Addeh mary school also runs HIV/AIDS awareness activities, games, drama and additional languages classes in French and Arabic to help the refugees integrate into Djibouti Djibouti where these are the official languages. Dis- cussions with the Ministry of Education in Djibouti and in Kenya aim to help get a combined Kenya-Dji- bouti curriculum taught in the school. Income Generation The refugee camp near Ali Addeh, Djibouti Income generating activities benefitting over 200 After managing the refugee camp near Ali families were also part of the programs supported Addeh, Djibouti for two and a half years by LWF. These included livestock rearing, entertain- preparations to open a second camp were at ment, shops selling clothes and household equipment, an advanced stage by the end of 2011. LWF restaurants and transport businesses. Women in has been operating education and livelihood particular were trained to make school uniforms for programs in Ali Addeh and will do the same the pupils and young people were trained in screen in the new camp at Hol Hol. printing. A group of women started a savings scheme from the proceeds of their businesses, which signifi- Education cantly enhanced their financial security. Youth printed LWF manages the primary school in Ali Ad- and sold caps, t-shirts, banners and labels using their deh, as well as four junior ‘classes’ located skills, which also boosted their income. These small- inside the refugee camp for younger children. scale businesses give hope for the future of refugee 2000 students from grade one to eight were youth and women in the camp. enrolled in the school over the past year – almost half of whom are girls. 8 Education No simple solution In sub-Saharan Africa, there are almost 10 million school-aged children who do not at- tend school (UNICEF). Ali Addeh refugee camp epitomises this problem. Of the 4,500 who are school-aged, only 2,014 regularly attend. But there is still cause for optimism. When LWF first started working in the camp, only 1,300 children attended Wadajir Primary School - the only school in Ali Addeh. Robai Naliaka and her colleagues who work for LWF are constantly asked to provide an Going to class at Wadajir Primary School in Ali Addeh Refugee Camp English curriculum, but, as Djibouti is French speaking, LWF and the United Nations High French language, but the refugees do not want to go Commission for Refugees are trying to create into this system. Many refugee children do not know a curriculum that is harmonised between both English, which is now the official language in the Kenyan and Djibouti curricula. Although the school in the camp. However, Robai says that every Kenyan curriculum is generally acceptable in child is trying to learn as many English words as East Africa, refugees are global citizens and they can and those who area struggling are taking must be able to fit into any part of the world. classes outside school time. This poses significant challenges to the school Finding qualified teachers is another challenge. As system in Ali Addeh. Students can only go to they teach parts of the Kenyan curriculum, there is Djibouti Secondary Schools if they use the no educational qualification in Djibouti that match- es the jobs they have. Education9 “We have approached donors to fund a pre- school and Diakonie has agreed to pilot a pro- gram. Kindergarten and grade one will go to these schools and our target is 1,000 students in October.” Many people are only concerned about basic literacy, so the quality of education would not improve over time. A pre-school will provide students with a good foundation to a compre- hensive education that will serve them well whatever their future might be. Girls in a class at Wadajir Primary School But when you walk into any of the senior classrooms in Wadajir Primary, students ask There are also very few trained teachers among the only one question, “When is the high school refugee community and a high turnover among the coming?” LWF needs to work with many teaching staff who are trained. LWF is forming a stakeholders because the Primary School partnership with a National Teacher Training Cen- is still trying to meet the standards of the tre in Djibouti to second local teachers to the camp. Kenyan curriculum. Secondary education will become a possibility only if there are bridging Even so, properly qualified Kenyan teachers will not classes. be found in Djibouti, so some teachers will need to come from Kenya. “We need to lay a good founda- “Meaningful education here must continue... tion,” says Robai, Secondary education will bring so much hope in the camp,” says Robai. 10 “They (refugee children) still have the same rights that other children have and I am hoping that LWF can take that lead role,” says Robai. Mustafa Warssama is the Head Teacher of Wadajir Primary School and has been a refugee since 1991, so he knows the struggles of his students well and is realistic about their future. For the next few years at least, most will continue to live in Ali Addeh. Only one in ten of the refugees there will resettle in an- other country. For the majority who aren’t resettled, the only other op- The Head Teacher of Wadajir Primary, Mustafa Wassama tion is repatriation back to Somalia.