Somali Bantu Refugee Resettlement:
From Kakuma to Atlanta
(2003-2005)
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Services and Programs
Accessing programs and services takes both opportunity and knowledge.
In a refugee camp, people don’t have much control over their lives beyond the day-to-day. There are a few community programs that people learn to access via word of mouth but they are not abundant. While we were in Kakuma, the only things the Somali Bantu could do most of the time was wait–wait to hear that the US refugee program was moving forward, wait and hope for their names to appear on the board to say they were the next to leave for a third country.