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Kakuma Camp Peace Building Project

The Kakuma Camp Peace Building Project (KCPBP) involves peacebuilding workshops that promote peace, encourage peacebuilding, and train participants to actively seek reconciliation. Certified Sudanese church leaders who have been trained to lead peacebuilding and reconciliation programs will facilitate these workshops.

The Situation

The Kakuma Refugee Camp in located in northwest Kenya bordering South Sudan. The camp is home to almost 200,000 refugees from South Sudan, as well as Burundi, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Congo. Living in an overcrowded refugee camp with little resources can lead people to fighting and conflict, and over the past several years, clashes have flared among the South Sudanese Refugees from different ethnic groups. This fighting has often led to deaths of refugees inside the camp. Through our church partner FEBAC, The Kakuma Peace Building project trains participants to be active peacebuilders in their community and encourages them to promote peaceful coexistence and reconciliation among the South Sudanese refugees from different ethnic groups. The workshop also deals with healing trauma from past events.

The Kakuma Camp Peace Building Project (KCPBP) involves peacebuilding workshops that promote peace, encourage peacebuilding, and train participants to actively seek reconciliation. Certified Sudanese church leaders who have been trained to lead peacebuilding and reconciliation programs will facilitate these workshops.

The Situation

The Kakuma Refugee Camp in located in northwest Kenya bordering South Sudan. The camp is home to almost 200,000 refugees from South Sudan, as well as Burundi, Somalia, Ethiopia, and Congo. Living in an overcrowded refugee camp with little resources can lead people to fighting and conflict, and over the past several years, clashes have flared among the South Sudanese Refugees from different ethnic groups. This fighting has often led to deaths of refugees inside the camp. Through our church partner FEBAC, The Kakuma Peace Building project trains participants to be active peacebuilders in their community and encourages them to promote peaceful coexistence and reconciliation among the South Sudanese refugees from different ethnic groups. The workshop also deals with healing trauma from past events.

How We Are Helping

Training Workshop

Church and community leaders will be trained to be active peace promoters among the South Sudanese communities in the refugee camp.

Reducing Ethnic Conflict & Trauma Healing

Participants will learn how past trauma can cause hurt and problems in their daily lives. By beginning the process of healing trauma, participants are less likely to act out in violence and aggression.

Empowering Local Leaders

When conflicts do arise, local leaders will be empowered to initiate peace and reconciliation meetings inside Kakuma Refugee camp.

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The Impact of Our Work

Abraham is a South Sudanese refugee who has been living at the Kakuma Refugee Camp with his wife and four children for the past six years. Before attending the peace training workshop, Abraham had no knowledge of how to build and promote peace in his community. After attending the workshop, Abraham shared the following: “The peace training workshop that I attended equipped me with practical skills in peace building and promotion, and I am already using my knowledge to promote peace within the camp. Through peace building and reconciliation meetings, I have seen a decrease in conflict among my brothers and sisters in the South Sudanese community.”

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“The peace training workshop has equipped me with peace building and promotion skills. Going forward I will be an active peace promoter and I will apply the skills I acquired to end conflicts in the camp.”

Rev. Santino Bol

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“Participants in the peace training workshop are becoming active peace promoters within the refugee camp. FEBAC will continue to support them to be proactive in the prevention of conflicts at the Kakuma Refugee Camp. Some of South Sudanese refugees who are the most affected by conflicts have taken the resolve to be directly involved in seeking a lasting solution to the recurrent inter-ethnic conflicts at the refugee camp.”