The families that make the forbidding journey to Dadaab, one of the world's largest refugee camps, see it as a transition or gateway to something better, even though most will go on to live their whole lives there. Hope often comes in the form of the simple school buildings that offer a way out.
While most teenagers around the world take for granted that they will leave home after graduation, those growing up in refugee camps are stuck in perpetual limbo.
Ter learned his first words in English at a refugee camp school in Kenya after an ethnically driven civil war broke out in his Sudanese home state of Jonglei.
He believes he will go one day to Australia, after he and his aunt did resettlement interviews with the U.N. refugee agency last year. But they are still here - the resettlement process can take years.
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