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Solar panels installed at the Kakuma refugee camp. PHOTO | POOL

In Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp, a majority of residents lack the opportunities to rebuild their future beyond shelter and food rations provided by humanitarian agencies.

Innocent Tshilombo, who has lived in Kakuma since he fled violence in the Democratic Republic of the Congo 13 years ago, says restrictions on movement under the host country’s old refugee policy have cut them off from jobs and education outside their camps.

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