Tarpaulin at the Bidi Bidi Settlement Camp North Uganda May 2017 To commemorate the UNs World Refugee Day 20 June 2017 new pictures show the scale of...
{"Image ImageDescription": "BIDI BIDI SETTLEMENT CAMP, NORTH UGANDA - MAY 2017: UNHCR Tarpaulin at the Bidi Bidi Settlement Camp, North Uganda, May 2017. To commemorate the UNs World Refugee Day, 20 June 2017, new pictures show the scale of Bidi Bidi Settlement, the worlds largest refugee camp,  and some of its residents trying to restart their lives with new homes, land and businesses. In North Uganda, Bidi Bidi is bigger in size than Washington DC and more than double the size of Disney World Florida. The vast settlement, which only opened in September 2016 in response to the violence in South Sudan, has a population of 272,000. Bidi Bidi is now closed to new residents but refugees from South Sudan  many unaccompanied children and minors - continue to pour into their neighbouring country, seeking out the newer Imvepi and Palabek settlements. Uganda receives, on average, 2,000 refugees a day and has one of the most generous refugee policies in the world. New arrivals are given land on which to build a home and farm from, while children are eligible for free education. Looking more like a North Ugandan village than a refugee settlement, while Bidi Bidi residents have the chance to rebuild their lives, conditions are hard: a drought in the region has made farming crops extremely difficult, while monthly food rations have been cut to 6kg of grain per person.\n\nPHOTOGRAPH BY Sumy Sadurni / Barcroft Images\n\nLondon-T:+44 207 033 1031 E:hello@barcroftmedia.com -\nNew York-T:+1 212 796 2458 E:hello@barcroftusa.com -\nNew Delhi-T:+91 11 4053 2429 E:hello@barcroftindia.com www.barcroftmedia.com (Photo credit should read Sumy Sadurni / Barcroft Media via Getty Images / Barcroft Media via Getty Images)", "Image Copyright": "Sumy Sadurni / Barcroft Media"}