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Learning by lamplight, against the odds: photo depicts ‘safety’ for child refugee

Robin Eveleigh

created: Aug. 25, 2025, 7 a.m. | updated: Sept. 5, 2025, 4:18 a.m.

What does safety mean when home is a refugee camp? A Kenyan refugee photographer captures a child who is learning, dreaming and hoping, despite fearSprawled on a mattress, a child studies by the light of a dusty oil lamp in Kenya’s Kakuma refugee camp. Yet despite scraping by in makeshift homes cobbled together from tarpaulin and sheet metal, children display a remarkable determination to learn. To photographer Dennis Taban Okeny – himself a resident of the camp – his image symbolises safety and resilience in the face of the most challenging conditions. Positive News editors select the week’s top stories of progress, bringing you the essential briefing about what's going right.

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