(7 Apr 2025)
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Kakuma, Kenya – 15 February 2025
1. Various of highway signage showing direction to Kakuma Refugee Camp
2. Various of people walking and crossing the highway
3. Woman selling vegetables by the road side
4. Mid of motorbike taxi operators by the side of the road
5. Various drone of Kakuma Refugee Camp ++MUTE++
6. Various of Mesfin Getahun, a former soldier who fled Ethiopia for Kakuma, inside one of his ‘Jesus is Lord’ shops with his customers
7. Wide pan of exterior of Getahun’s shop
8. Getahun talking to his employee in another one of his shops
9. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Mesfin Getahun, Ethiopian Refugee:
"I came to Kakuma in 2001 and life was very hard in those days. Not to mention the heat and the infrastructure was not as good as it is now. Life was very bad in the refugee camp. I did casual jobs within the camp and got paid one thousand Kenya Shillings (7.75 USD). I saved the money and that helped to get me into the position I am in today (owner of multiple businesses)."
10. Various of Getahun talking to Julienne Oyler, who runs Inkomoko – a charity providing financial training and low-cost loans
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Julienne Oyler, Inkomoko CEO:
"We find that refugee business owners and business owners in these communities at large, actually have the characteristics that make world-class entrepreneurs. They are resilient, they are resourceful, they have access to networks, they have adaptability. The things that we study to make these great entrepreneurs, but the problem is, we actually don’t look to businesses in displacement-affected communities in the same way. And that’s what we found is that in some ways, what refugees unfortunately have had to go through actually makes a really good business owner."
12. Drone tracking shot of Kolebeyei Integrated Settlement in Kakuma ++MUTE++
13. Various of Adele Mubalama, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) helping her employee to cut fabric inside her boutique
14. Various of Mubalama and her employees working
15. Wide of Mubalama speaking
16. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Adele Mubalama, Congolese refugee:
"Some people are afraid of taking loans, but loans are good. Because even your closest friend can not lend you money to start a business, but organizations like Inkomoko lend out money for a business startup. That is how you grow yourself."
17. Various of Mubalama interacting with customers
18. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Adele Mubalama, Congolese refugee:
"I have employed 26 people since I started my business – 22 women and four men. My customers are from the local community, around Kenya and internationally. My business has spread to Canada and United States."
19. Drone shot pulling up from Adele’s boutique, revealing the larger integrated settlement area ++MUTE++
20. Various of UNHCR tents at Kakuma Refugee Camp’s registration area
21. SOUNDBITE (Kiswahili) Mesfin Getahun, Ethiopian Refugee:
"At the moment, UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) has low budgets here. They do not give out cooking apparatus, they do not provide shelter. They do not help as much as they did before, they are less effective than they were before."
22. Various of Aghan refugees
21. Various of a Congolese refugee working on a client in her beauty shop
22. SOUNDBITE (English) Julienne Oyler, Inkomoko CEO:
23. Various drone of Kalobeyei Integrated Settlement in Kakuma ++MUTE++
24. Tarmac highway with modern solar-powered street light poles in Kakuma
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