On the right: Qaali Hussein Abdi, 14, was raped at night in her room.
She likes reading the Quran and would like to be a Quran teacher when she grows up.
Qaali arrived in Dadaab from Kismayo in 2008 with her mother when she was 2.
Her mother says: “I am not ready to go back to Somalia, there’s no peace. I was comfortable living here until my daughter was raped. As the perpetrator is still around, I’ll go to Somalia against my will.”

On the left: Fosia Isaack, 35 arrived in Dadaab at the end of 2008. She escorted her sister who was running away from a forced marriage. She’s a mother to 10 children, one of whom passed away.
Her first daughter was raped at 2 years. Another of her son was sexually abused and in June 2021 her younger son, Abdullahi Noru was sexually abused by an older boy. She confronted the perpetrator who later accused her of assault, leading to her arrest. She was jailed for a night leaving her children unattended. "I don’t sleep. I have tremors and the impact on Abdullahi has been worse. He’s withdrawn. He doesn’t sit with other boys. He stopped playing with them and sleeps in the corner, and once he said, “I’m going to kill myself.” I want to feel safe and and I hope a solution will be found because when I came to the camps, I was seeking safety. Camp closure is not a solution, I don’t want to lose my boys to armed gangs.”