Kakuma, a refugee camp in Kenya, is home to less than 1 percent of the world’s displaced people but half of the athletes who competed on the 2016 Refugee Olympic Team. With about 147,000 residents, it has nearly 600 athletic teams—and one of them leads the Kenyan regional second division.
Kakuma is also remarkable in ways that have nothing to do with sports. This year, it was the first refugee camp to host a TEDx. Kakuma contains the world’s first settlement specifically designed to allow refugees and members of the host community to live and work alongside one another. By population, it’s about the 11th-largest city in Kenya, with an economy worth an impressive $56.2 million.
