KAKUMA, Kenya/GENEVA | 8/3/2021 Webinar participants after the session in Kakuma refugee camp, Kenya. Photo: LWF/ P. Omagwa
Webinar from refugee camp in Kenya, brings voices of young refugees
(LWI) - Young women in Kakuma refugee camp face many obstacles when aiming for equal opportunities as men and boys. In a webinar: “Emerging Women who Choose to Challenge”, young refugees and staff of the Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in Kakuma shared their daily struggles to realize their dreams and having careers of their choice.
“For women, to speak up is still a big challenge,” said Hilda Thuo, LWF Livelihoods Officer, Kakuma Area Program, and member of the LWF Kenya-Somalia gender action team. She underlined the importance of cultural dynamics in gender relations at Kakuma refugee camp. “Many communities still adhere to cultural practices which hinder women in attaining their goals.”
COX’S BAZAAR, Bangladesh/GENEVA | 3/3/2021 LWF distributed mosquito nets to more than 12,000 households in two camps in Cox ’s Bazaar refugee camp. The nets will protect especially small children against diseases such as Dengue fever and Malaria. Photo: Bela Wadud/ RDRS/LREP
Livelihood support and protection against diseases
(LWI) - In October 2017, violence in Myanmar forced over 700,000 Rohingya to flee to neighboring Bangladesh. They found a temporary home in Cox’s Bazaar refugee camp, one of the largest refugee camps worldwide.
The Lutheran World Federation (LWF) in 2017 started an emergency operation through its former country program, RDRS Bangladesh. They provided emergency relief items in the initial response then moved to recovery programs, which benefitted both refugees and host communities including improved water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), reproductive health, nutrition, livelihoods and environment protection.
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GENEVA, Switzerland | 16/2/2021 Swedish Lutheran Sister Karin Johansson. Photo: Richard Orange/Radio Sweden
Swedish sister joins Mexican priest and Croatian rights activist calling for need to change refugee narratives
(LWI) - People of faith have a particular responsibility to lift up the voices of refugees and asylum seekers who are still perceived by politicians as a problem to be solved, rather than seeing their presence as “a gift” and an opportunity for growth.
Swedish Lutheran Sister Karin Johansson knows just how difficult it is to change the minds of legislators and decision makers responding to the influx of refugees in her native country. For the past four decades, she has been lobbying on behalf of thousands of individuals and families who have showed up on the doorstep of the Alsike convent near Uppsala, where she lives with another sister and two women in training for religious life.
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