Kakuma Refugee Camp Holistic Support

IsraAID Kenya's Community Outreach Workers' provide psychosocial support, referrals, and other advice to people living in Kakuma Refugee Camp. This is Regina's story:

My name is Regina and I am Congolese but living in Kakuma Refugee Camp. I am a single mother of eight children, and my eldest daughter recently gave birth. At the time she gave birth to her daughter, she was living outside of the camp. Due to mental health challenges, she was not coping well so left her daughter with me.

Together with seven children and one grandchild we live here in Kakuma and depend on food rations. At first, it was difficult to receive rations for my granddaughter as she was not registered under my care, I tried many different offices but nothing seemed to be helping and I lost hope.

When IsraAID Community Outreach Worker Hussein knocked on my door, I told him he wouldn’t be able to help me because I had already tried in every way to add my granddaughter but didn’t succeed. But Hussein didn’t lose hope and returned another to discuss other possibilities, sharing with me me important information and options. In that moment, I didn't react, but after he left I started to think about everything he had told me and began seeing a possible solution from far. I thought that maybe God sent this person here, but even still, I felt discouraged. On a third visit, Hussein asked me ‘’if not you, who can help this girl?’’ I started crying, and right there and then I decided to try again.

I used the information that Hussein shared with me and eventually was able to finally add the girl to my ration card. After six months of agony, the child can now receive her ration from UNHCR. I thoughts it was a dream and I returned home singing and smiling. The following day, when I saw Hussein coming from afar, I started crying. When he arrived at my home I told him “Hussein, I succeeded. Thank you so much, and thank you IsraAID.”  I cannot donate to others, but I can be an ambassador for IsraAID to my community.

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