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Throughout East Africa, many conflicts, political uprisings and natural disasters, over the past thirty years, have left hundreds of thousands taking refuge in Kenya’s two largest refugee camps: Kakuma in the Northwest and Dadaab in the East. Among the combined population of 400,000 refugee and asylum seekers in these camps, over half of the settler population are children of school age. Many of the children are enrolled in various pre-primary, primary and secondary education institutions in the camps, yet there remain barriers to accessing this education: supply issues, socio-economic factors and cultural norms and traditions limit children’s, particularly girls, enrolment to schools. Despite using the Kenyan national curriculum, with students expected to sit the national exams, school institutions are managed and financed by the United Nations High Commission for Refugees and other international donors. This can lead to further obstacles for refugee, asylum seekers and their host communities due to the unsustainable policies pursued by these organisations. Even using the Kenyan curriculum has created difficulties for children accessing the education due to language and cultural barriers, isolating the new population from the host, leading to further embedded resentment by the latter for the refugee camps. In order to protect the rights of the refugee’s, it is vital that the education provided in Kakuma and Dadaab alike is accessible for all to better integrate the refugee community, this includes both the form and hidden curriculums.