Day 6- CARE's Refugee Camp in Dadaab

Today I am in a Third World nation and I am going to fly into a bandit country in a charter plane. Nick has done this many times and so I was glad he was there to reassure my safe return. Unfortunately he told me that these planes crash all the time and that he was scared too. We arrived at the Malindi Airport an hour later. We are going to two of CARE's refugee camps in Dadaab and Nairobi. Our pilot, Nino, looked very reassuring and reliable. We got on the plane and headed for Dadaab. Luckily, we landed safely. I learned that during the fighting in Somalia many refugees came to Dadaab for help. Unfortunately, in Dadaab there has been years of drought. This is a huge problem for the 134,000 people that live there and there are only three units in this camp. CARE only has 175 workers to take care of thousands of people. The entire day we learned more about the camp. We toured the food distribution center, the sanitization process, and schools. Many people there are in bad conditions. They are either dying, malnourished, or in need of a doctor. It was extremely devastating.