SOMALIA

Over

1971.

million Somalis have been displaced domestically and abroad since

DADAAB REFUGEE CAMP

Across the border

Somalis find refuge in

camps such as the ones in Dadaab

where nearly

300 000
.

Kenya

Somali refugees

currently reside

Under the administration of CARE and

supplemented by a number of NGO s

the

camps in Dadaab struggle to care for their

refugee population

Over the years the camps

in Dadaab have been paralyzed by drought

famine

and infectious onslaughts

LIVING CONDITIONS

Most recently

in

2014

when the World Food Programme was faced with a financial crisis

Dadaab were the first to feel the crippling reality of ration cuts
were drastically halved

Alongside deteriorating food programs

distributed due to lack of funds and resources

Having been faced with lack of food

the camps in

where the food quotas per person

healthcare in Dadaab is dismally

lack of clean water and lack of medicine

Somali refugees are

additionally faced with harsh laws that inhibit their ability to seek citizenship or even to leave the
camps themselves

ROUTES OF PASSAGE

Forced to rely on smugglers

Somalis have

become the frequent victims of human

trafficking in recent years

Traffickers charge

refugees vast sums of money in return for

their passage to coastal European cities

Crowded

damaged and overfilled

the boats

and routes of passage used by these

smugglers are remarkably dangerous and
have resulted in the deaths of thousands of
refugees at sea

In August

2016, 200

Somalis drowned in the

Mediterranean Sea alongside other refugees

as they attempted to reach the coast of Italy