Newsha Tavakolian A team of young boys playing football in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya. Football is the only sport young boys play to keep them busy after school. The Kakuma Camp is home to thousands o (...)
f people who have fled their homes following the outbreak of inter-tribal fighting in South Sudan and eastern DRC. Kenya. 2016. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian A team of young boys playing football in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya. Football is the only sport young boys play to keep them busy after school. The Kakuma camp is home to thousands o (...)
f people who have fled their homes following the outbreak of inter-tribal fighting in South Sudan and eastern DRC. Kenya. 2016. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian A team of young boys playing football in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya. Football is the only sport young boys play to keep them busy after school. The Kakuma Camp is home to thousands o (...)
f people who have fled their homes following the outbreak of inter-tribal fighting in South Sudan and eastern DRC. Kenya. 2016. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian A team of young boys playing football in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya. Football is the only sport young boys play to keep them busy after school. The Kakuma Camp is home to thousands o (...)
f people who have fled their homes following the outbreak of inter-tribal fighting in South Sudan and eastern DRC. Kenya. 2016. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian A team of young boys playing football in the Kakuma Refugee Camp in Northern Kenya. Football is the only sport young boys play to keep them busy after school. The Kakuma Camp is home to thousands o (...)
f people who have fled their homes following the outbreak of inter-tribal fighting in South Sudan and eastern DRC. Kenya. 2016. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian Grace Apule, aged 19 and originally from Sudan, was one of the budding athletes who has returned to the Kakuma Refugee Camp to continue with her studies, after failing to make the grade in Nairobi. (...)
She says: “ the Nairobi athletes’ training camp was great because we had to practice with the coach and learn the right moves, but the only thing I missed very much was to be at school.” Kenya. 2016. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian Mary is the aunt of the refugee athlete Anjelina Nadai, who will compete in the women’s 1500 meters at the Rio Olympics. Here she sits in the courtyard of her house inside the Kakuma camp. The 28-y (...)
ear-old mother of four has been taking care of both Anjelina and her brother after they fled from South Sudan. She says: “in 2002 when Anjelina fled the war to travel to Nairobi alone, she found a woman who was willing to take care of her, but after sometime she run out of money and Anjelina had to come here to the Kakuma Refugee Camp to stay with me. I am very proud of Anjelina and I hope she will succeed and come back to change and to help her country, South Sudan.” Kenya. 2016. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian Mary is the aunt of the refugee athlete Anjelina Nadai, who will compete in the women’s 1500 meters at the Rio Olympics. Here she sits in the courtyard of her house inside the Kakuma Camp. The 28-y (...)
ear-old mother of four has been taking care of both Anjelina and her brother after they fled from South Sudan. She says, “in 2002 when Anjelina fled the war to travel to Nairobi alone, she found a woman who was willing to take care of her, but after sometime she run out of money and Anjelina had to come here to the Kakuma refugee camp to stay with me. I am very proud of Anjelina and I hope she will succeed and come back to change and to help her country, South Sudan.” Kenya. 2016. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian William Ario, the 11-year-old brother of Anjelina,fled South Sudan in 2015 to join his sister at the Kakuma Refugee Camp. He says: “I would really like to watch my sister run at the Olympics, but w (...)
e have no television set at the camp.” Kenya. 2016. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian William Ario, the 11-year-old brother of Anjelina, fled South Sudan in 2015 to join his sister at the Kakuma Refugee Camp. He says: “I would really like to watch my sister run at the Olympics, but (...)
we have no television set at the camp.” Kenya. 2016. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian Grace Apule, aged 19 and originally from Sudan, was one of the budding athletes who has returned to the Kakuma Refugee Camp to continue with her studies after failing to make the grade in Nairobi. (...)
She says “ the Nairobi athletes’ training camp was great because we had to practice with the coach and learn the right moves but the only thing I missed very much was to be at school.” Kenya. 2016. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian On the left is Piech, Yiech Pur Biel’s older brother, and on the right is his best friend Bidiet. They are standing at the school where Pur Biel, the Olympic 800 metre runner, used to attend. The t (...)
hree men shared the same room. Bur’s brother said. “Here we have nothing. Pur, our friend and I have only one pair of shoes and two school uniforms between us. This is all we have. Life here is very difficult for us. We have been here now for 11 years without having known what happened to our parents and our youngest brother.” Kenya. 2016. © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos
Newsha Tavakolian KENYA. 2016. Paul’s best friend, Simon Lokamarco, 19, greeting a neighbor and talking about Paul in front of the house. Lokamarco says about Paul: “I am so happy about him, I am going to listen to (...)
the radio to monitor his Olympic progress. If he wins, he’s going to help all of us here because he has a good heart.” © Newsha Tavakolian | Magnum Photos