one of the things you're talking about and you can talk about is the economy of refugee camps like a cooma and recently the i have seen a visit did a report the international finance corporation to report about the level of onto a printer ship that happening to cooma i want to show you the ingenuity creativity of the refugees who live to have a look. i've learned out of the mouth someone you family your group a book i'm sorry. there's a good we could run up to you that you can uniquely not. you got to do good work on my dog when you get over. it well why do you need to borrow my god to look up a mile for god while on the out of the only time i was ok i got it. i mean coming from somebody and nobody should i come here because i'm trying i put up this one to collect you can accounts of protocol. internet service provider income. but there were other people so we all know ourselves. i think i know what you're trying to do hail the u.n.h. are trying to do in the well and all these interested parties is to look at refugee camps as not nicely button and people as helpless but as entrepreneurs pe

one of the co-hosts of ted can my camp at eight and it is a fashion model who was born in cooma after her family fled civil war in somalia in melbourne australia mccord to what she's also a former kakuma refugee who now works as a multicultural development director for this trainee and football league in the united states or who he's an economic as a publicist who studies the social economies of refugee camps hello everybody it's so good to have you in the stream mode. where were you when this idea popped into your hate ted x. cookoo my camp well i've had a relationship with ted and i've seen the power of public. and i just thought you know. bring a ted x. event to a refugee camp and allow refugees to be the speakers for change and not just refugees but people from refugees like lima and people who care about changing the narrative. changing the approach to refugees around the world so yeah it was a vision that was a dream. actually we kind of thought we were crazy because it was logistically quite a feat but as you see today from those images are amazing logistics team and kenyan com

arranges lectures around the world well they're in cooma refugee camp is a very mohammed jam june and he's joining us live mohammed what kind of event did it turn out to be. martina it's been an extraordinary remarkable day. people i'm speaking with all day are telling me how happy they are that this is happening i had two men south sudanese refugees who've been in this camp for five years who approached me moments ago just to tell me how excited they were this event was taking place and event that they believe will highlight the kind of positive impact refugees are making not just in this community in this country but also around the world so to speak more about everything behind this event i want to bring in our guests right now we're very happy to have melissa fleming she's the chief spokesperson for us and also one of the co-host of this event the melissa thank you so much for being with us i want to ask you first about this event how does something like this help change the narrative when it comes to refugees and how they're perceived around the world well i think most europeans

the international finance corporation to report about the level of entrepreneurship that happening cooma i want to show you the ingenuity creativity of the refugees who live to have a look. i've learned out of the month someone you can finally be assured you group the book up so. there's a good we could work on of you that you can uniquely not. get i do good work i don't want to go over to you why do you need to borrow my god i forgot them all on the up of the only time i was ok i got it. i mean coming from somebody i'm over the shop i come here because i'm taking i put up this one to collect you can a concert protocol. internet service provider income. but there were other people so we all know ourselves. i think i know what you're trying to do hail the u.n.h. h.c.r. are trying to do in the well and all these interested parties is to look at refugee camps as not nicely button and people as helpless but as entrepreneurs people who have incredible futures and also we may be rethinking what a refugee camp can be and should be because so many of them are now running for a long time decades

asian arranges lectures around the world to try and change perceptions of how the germ jim was in cooma for the event. it's been an extraordinary day here at the cooma refugee camp here in north western kenya this is a refugee camp that houses around one hundred eighty five thousand refugees in this ted x. cacouna camp talk today this is something that's really been inspiring for a lot of the residents here the organizers are hoping with this event to showcase the positive impact that refugees that have had made not just in this camp not just in this country but all around the world now earlier i spoke with melissa fleming she's the chief u.n.h.c.r. spokesperson also one of the co-hosts of this event and i asked her how an event like this was going to help try to reshape the narrative around refugees and how refugees are perceived around the world most europeans or americans are astray and think that all the refugees are coming their way frankly most of them are in countries like kenya eighty five percent and yet they're invisible and we were hoping with this event today can't we could

been quite a journey really listening to this and listening to this day she's an idea of a text in coomakept this is somewhere that you've been visiting you've been studying for the last decade when you first heard of the idea what was your reaction i thought it was a great idea so it was a fantastically dear because it's some could. actually actually plague me that we have a conception of refugees as hopeless and yet actually one of the most well studied terms in the would there be an academic's of greece which is what my so going i was one of the first few people to go with. it if it holds you because you actually see you with a devotee. rendered prayer and that's what was taught x is going to do because what it's going to do is it's going to speak about. please but seems to be all of this but it's going to speak about success and it's also going to talk about you with resilience the human fighting spirit in the worst of temperatures sometimes in the biggest of despair so i want to give our viewers who are not to feel you're familiar with. a little taste from our online audience of wha

event which organizers hope will show refugees in a more positive light is happening at the could cooma campaign kenya which houses around one hundred eighty five thousand people from countries including south sudan somalia and ethiopia the organization behind it ted x. arranges of events electors around the world this is what's being streamed right now from cooma do joins us live now from the camp have a dozen a bit more about this event. a lot of the events just started in the past five minutes or so there's a lot of excitement here where in cacouna refugee camp this is in northwest kenya home to about one hundred eighty five thousand refugees from countries like somalia south sudan rwanda and many other places this camp was established in nineteen ninety two now this event today it's the first time that a ted conference is happening inside a refugee camp this was organized with the u.n. h.c.r. and here at the camp there's a lot of excitement because this is a day in which it's really going to try to showcase the positive contribution made by refugees not just in this camp not just in

it's been an extraordinary day here at the cooma refugee camp here in north western kenya this is a refugee camp that houses around one hundred eighty five thousand refugees in this ted x. cacouna camp talk today this is something that's really been inspiring for a lot of the residents here the organizers are hoping with this event to showcase the positive impact that refugees have had made not just in this camp not just in this country but all around the world now earlier i spoke with melissa fleming she's the chief u.n.h.c.r. spokesperson also one of the co-hosts of this event and i asked her how an event like this was going to help try to reshape the narrative around refugees and how refugees are perceived around the world most europeans or americans are astray and think that all the refugees are coming their way frankly most of them are in countries like kenya eighty five percent and yet they're invisible and we were hoping with this event today can't we could really illuminate the camp but not only that the extraordinary refugees and the talents and the ideas they have by putting them

comes have been beamed around the world to the rare web streaming event to tell their stories the cooma company kenya house about one hundred eighty five thousand people from south sudan somalia ethiopia and other countries. for the event. it's been an extraordinary day here at the cooma refugee camp here in north western kenya this is a refugee camp that houses around one hundred eighty five thousand refugees in this ted x. cacouna camp talk today this is something that's really been inspiring for a lot of the residents here the organizers are hoping with this event to showcase the positive impact that refugees that have had made not just in this camp not just in this country but all around the world now earlier i spoke with melissa fleming she's the chief u.n.h.c.r. spokesperson also one of the co-hosts of this event and i asked her how an event like this was going to help try to reshape the narrative around refugees and how refugees are perceived around the world most europeans or americans are astray and think that all the refugees are coming their way frankly most of them are in co

refugees and for refugees a recent study by international finance corporation actually shows that cooma camp and its surrounding areas in fact is a market place worth over fifty six million dollars and incredibly there are more than two thousand businesses in operation that now the refugees have showing spending and buying power trading with local community hosts and investing in buying everything from food to cosmetics to mobile phones but also an eighty seventy percent of accounts residents have access to the internet which has been integrity for them for improving their businesses and investment prospects there so with the success stories including a small business owner there's also other people like twenty three year olds he's arrived at the kenyan camp as a child but through determination he participated in the twenty sixteen olympics he's the one that dressed with the red top but he took part in the first ever lympics refugee camp sort of refugee a couple of years ago. well there is good. and we're going to get to the. good and the good. but most of it is struggling. with those d

refugees in a more positive light is happening at the cooma camp in kenya which has around one hundred eighty five thousand people from countries including south sudan somalia and ethiopia it was asian behind it ted acts of ranges of violence and says around the world. was a live for us in that was an exciting day for people in the camp. laura you know this is a really extraordinary event here you know it's really highlighting the positive impact positive contribution that refugees make not just in this camp not just in this country but also around the world we've already heard several very emotional presentations given by refugees many who have lived here at different points in their lives and i want to bring in one right now our guest that we have this is mary variac mike here she is a teacher she's twenty two years old she gave a wonderful presentation just about an hour ago about her experiences here mary thank you for joining us i want to ask you first what was it like for you fleeing south sudan as a child and coming here i can say it was one of the longest journey that i've ever

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streaming of fans that organizers hope will show refugees animal positive life is happening at the cooma camp in kenya which houses around one hundred eighty five thousand people from countries including south sudan somalia and ethiopia. behind it arranges events and lectures around the wells. for us in cat love to talk us through what's happening to us today. well or right now the camp event has taken a lunch break so there's more people outside of the tent where this event is being housed sort of milling about relaxing a little bit in between presentations we heard a music performance happening a few moments ago as well there will be more music later in the afternoon to overall it's really been a remarkable day we've spoke in the last few hours you and i about the fact that this is an event that's really trying to highlight the positive impact the positive change that refugees can bring to communities and all across the world it's an event that the organizers hope will try to change the narrative when it comes to refugees to change those negative perceptions and stereotypes that abide

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