I have been traveling for three days, of which I have spent either at an airport, and/or bus stations...waiting; or going from one official building to another. This took the whole of yesterday. I need formal (official) permission to go to Kakuma. Then only to find out that the one person who needs to sign my permission letter is: "still not in his office" and "please can you come back tomorrow". So, I wait again.
This waiting consist of being taken to several places in Nairobi by the taxi driver, Wilson, where many people live, work and survive on a daily basis. At one stage I heard a story from an individual; who on his first night here spend $60 on accommodation - a hotel - before he found a much much cheaper place to stay. That meant he spend half of the amount of money he saved to come here; to safety, in one night. For him there is a very long wait still to come.
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