Former refugees tell their story of people living in a refugee camp in Kenya.

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Length: 0:33:40
Uploaded: 19 Jun, 2010

Recording Date: 17 Jun, 2010
Recording Location: CFRU 93.3 FM, Guelph
Logsheet: none
Language: English
Topical for: Timeless
Status: Complete, Ready to Air
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Spotlight on life in Kenyan refugee camps by Migrant Matters Radio is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License.

Program Title: Spotlight on life in a Kenyan refugee camp
Description: Samuel and Malith are former refugees who lived in the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya. They discuss life in a refugee camp in Kenya and how they feel about living in Canada. The two are organizers with World University Service of Canada (WUSC)'s Shine A light campaign, and talk about the urgency for girls to receive more opportunities and material support for education that will give them the seed of thinking and help their society learn ways to overcome oppression.

Host(s): MaryCarl Guiao
Featured Speakers/Guests: Samuel & Malith

Credits: migrantmatters@riseup.net

Comments: About the WUSC Shine a Light Campaign:

Education is a powerful tool and without it few of us would reach our full potential. In refugee camps very few girls have the opportunity to pursue their education beyond primary school and without education these young people have no way out.

The Shine a Light campaign aims to enhance what girls can achieve by helping them overcome the challenges they face in accessing education in the refugee camps. With the help of public donations, WUSC aims to provide these girls with the tools they need to learn, to strive, and to succeed.

For over 30 years, the WUSC Student Refugee Program has been providing opportunities for young refugees to pursue higher education in Canada. Among the students sponsored by WUSC, men greatly outnumber women because few girls finish high school. This is a situation this campaign is working to change.