• Updates
  • Resources
Search
  • Donate
  • LWF Global
  • Global (EN)
  • LWF Thirteenth Assembly
  • Reformation 2017 (EN)
    • Africa (EN)
    • Asia (EN)
    • América Latina y Caribe (ES)
Ethiopia
  • Updates
  • Resources
Search
  • Donate
  • LWF Global
  • Global (EN)
  • LWF Thirteenth Assembly
  • Reformation 2017 (EN)
    • Africa (EN)
    • Asia (EN)
    • América Latina y Caribe (ES)
Home
  • Home /
  • Emergencies /
  • Refugee response /
  • Somali Protracted Refugee Situation, a retrospective
Ethiopia
  • About us
    • Staff
    • Accountability & Complaint Response
    • Bids and Tenders
    • Vacancies
    • LWF World Service
  • What We Do
    • WORLD HUMANITARIAN DAY
    • COP 22 and Climate Change
  • Projects
  • Emergencies
    • The challenge of social distancing in Ethiopia
    • Refugee response
      • August 12 - International Youth Day Celebrated in Jewi Refugee Camp, Gambella
      • Somali Protracted Refugee Situation, a retrospective
    • Drought emergency
      • ETH161 in action
  • About us
    • Staff
    • Accountability & Complaint Response
    • Bids and Tenders
    • Vacancies
    • LWF World Service
  • What We Do
    • WORLD HUMANITARIAN DAY
    • COP 22 and Climate Change
  • Projects
  • Emergencies
    • The challenge of social distancing in Ethiopia
    • Refugee response
      • August 12 - International Youth Day Celebrated in Jewi Refugee Camp, Gambella
      • Somali Protracted Refugee Situation, a retrospective
    • Drought emergency
      • ETH161 in action
        • LWF World Service Ethiopia Response to the El - Niño induced drought
  • The challenge of social distancing in Ethiopia
  • Refugee response
  • Drought emergency

Somali Protracted Refugee Situation, a retrospective

LWF World Service Ethiopia started responding to the Somali refugee crisis in on Somali Regional State following the large influx into Aw-Barre, Kebribeyah and Sheder refugee camps in 2007. Nine years on, LWF World Service Ethiopia continues to manage the water supply system and provide livelihood opportunities to refugees in Aw-Barre and Sheder camps where refugees are languishing in a protracted refugee situation.  With increasing number and more headline-grabbing competing humanitarian crises, Somali refugees are caught up in protracted refugee situations and witnessing decreasing funding, crumbling infrasructure and declining provision of basic services. The inadequate services and facilities are exacerbated by the lack of durable solutions such as local integration, voluntary repatriation and resettlement which remain as elusive as ever. LWF World Service Ethiopia together with the united Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the Administration for Refugees and Returnees Affair (ARRA) and other partners continues to work in both camps ensuring a dignified life in asylum.   

17 October 2016

Photos: LWF Ethiopia

Aw-Barre refugee camp, circa 2008 

Ibid.

Shelter in Aw-Barre refugee camp 

A young Somali woman with her baby in Aw-Barre refugee camp 

Traditional water well 

LWF World  Service Ethiopia-installed shallow well with a hand pump 

Women pumping water, now near to their homesteads

A girl pumping water 

The ubiquitous yellow 20 lit jerry cans

A time to fetch water but also a time to socialize 

Washing a blanket with the feet

Pumping water 

A young man pumping water - not a gender-seggregated role at least in this camp

Fecthing water with a smile, no longer a major chore and a long treacherous trek

Drip irigation as part of the livelihood support

Ibid. 

Gone harvesting, a Somali man with a sickle on his head 

World Service Director Eberhard Hitzler, an the then Resident Representative of LWF World Service Ethiopia John Halvorson and Ato Bodja Program Coordinator visiting with and sharing a laugh with children, Aw-Barre refugee camp. 

Visiting a water installation 

Meeting with local authorities 

Young Somali women 

Ibid

Ibid.

The beautiful bright colours of Somali women's attire 

The happy children of Aw-Barre 

Song and dance at the heart of Somali culture 

Ibid. 

and for women of all ages...

Ibid.

A job well done

Visitors go, refugees stay..

 
The Lutheran World Federation Ethiopia Program

Addis Ababa Office

P.O. Box 40132

Woreda 6, House No. 910

Arada Kifle Ketema

Addis Ababa, Ethiopia

 

Enquiries:    lwf.ethiopia@lutheranworld.org

Complaints: complaints.ethiopia@lutheranworld.org

 

  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms Of Use
© Copyright 2019 Lutheran World Federation