Housed in an abandoned former textile factory, Barikama Yogurt is a glimpse into what happens when people are forced to create their own opportunities. This micro-income project produces and sells organic yogurt in the Rome vicinity. In a brightly lit room with...
My name is Abdullahi Mohomed Adow. I’m a 33-year-old refugee from Somalia, currently living with my family (my wife and our eight children, and my mother) in Dollo Ado, Ethiopia. We arrived here in 2009, after the situation in Somalia became too dangerous for us to...
In 2014, NeeNee Productions met a group of refugees working to change the way education was delivered to children in their community of Kyangwali Refugee Settlement. When we met this group of men they had been working for change for nearly ten years. Watch our latest...
Twenty-five year old Fatuma runs her own Beauty Salon in Ifo camp, one of Dadaab’s five refugee camps in northeastern Kenya. “I was almost born here!” She says with a bright smile on her face as she smears henna on the arm of one of her customers. She was only a year...
In 2013, NeeNee Productions first introduced video storytelling to a group of teenage refugee girls living in a protracted situation in Uganda’s Kyangwali Refugee Settlement. At that time, the girls collaborated in small groups, created poems, and then read their...
I was jolted by what Kenyan Deputy President William Ruto said on Saturday, April 11, when he visited Nyeri County in Kenya’s central region. He gave the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees three months to relocate the refugees in Dadaab camps to Somalia,...
