17-year-old Suuban* endured 16-hours of child labor on the back of a truck, fleeing drought conditions in Sakow, in southern Somalia, to the world’s largest refugee camp in Dadaab, in North-East Kenya. Her delivery was severely damaging to her health, but she didn’t seek medical attention.
When she arrived at the camps, other refugees told her that only women who had given birth inside the camps could see doctors. This was not true. Read more »