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Alive & Kicking make cheap, tough, repairable footballs, netballs and volleyballs using African skills and African leather. Each carries a message about HIV/AIDS and malaria.
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Refugee camps
Kenya
Some countries in Africa have been plagued by years of conflict and civil war. Kenya is bordered by two such countries and as a result, the Republic currently hosts several hundred thousand Sudanese and Somali refugees who are being housed in two large camps - Kakuma in the northern part of Kenya's Rift Valley Province and Dadaab, in the North East.
Kakuma and Dadaab are in a remote, semi-arid area in northern Kenya. Temperatures by day are near to 40° and only drop to the low 30s at night. Water and food rations are in short supply and many in the camp are close to starving.
At times there are over 200,000 refugees. This number fluctuates, however, depending on the state of the conflict in Southern Sudan.
Living away from home in a camp is not easy, but under the global direction of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), a number of humanitarian organisations are trying to make life better for the occupants. Most of their interventions are well received, but none more so than organised sport. Thanks to your generosity; Alive & Kicking has provided balls to both the International Rescue Committee (IRC) in Kakuma and Care Kenya in Dadaab.
If you want to know more about life in a refugee camp or the work that IRC or Care undertake, click on the following links: www.theirc.org and www.care.or.ke