Peter Lokorimuge

1980-2024

Peter Kubai Lokorimuge was born in Lorema around 1980. In March 1995, he moved to Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya, to start a new life as a refugee. Around the same year, after arrival in Kakuma, he enrolled in Unity Primary School, one of the many UN-sponsored schools that helped refugees attend modern education system free of charge.

In 2001, the Dominican Sisters, a catholic charity organization transferred Peter Kubai and other students to Napeililim Primary school, a school situated between Kakuma Refugee Camp and Lodwar town in Northwest Kenya and funded by the government of Kenya. Napeililim is a Turkana dialect for "one shower/droplet of rain or one shower. The area receives little to no rain at all each year. The climate is arid.)

He graduated primary school in Napeililim after studying there for two years.

In February 2003, he enrolled in Kyuna Academy high school, a senior school in the suburbs of Nairobi, where he studied for one year. In 2004, Kubai and all other students under sponsorship of Dominican Sisters were transferred to Ngelani Secondary school, Machakos. He started his studies at Ngelani as a second-year high school student until his graduation from in 2006.

Because of lack of resources to continue his higher education, the Dominican Sisters had offered him an opportunity to resettle in the United Sates as a refugee. United States offered range of opportunities such as job and continuation of education as advised by Sister Luise Agonia Redlemeier, Kenyan-based German Sister who housed, fed and educated refugees like Kubai.

In 2012, Kubai arrived in the state of Colorado, USA and started his new life in America, acquired his legal documents, and was hired by (Company). In 2014, about two years after arrival in the United Sates, Kubai revisit Kakuma Refugee Camp to see friends he once spent time with. During his visit, he solely purchased and delivered important sporting materials to the local football teams in the refugee camp. He was a generous and friendly person throughout his adulthood life.

Kubai is survived by a mother, two brothers and two sisters who are currently in Kakuma Refugee Camp, Kenya. He would be greatly missed. May God's blessing welcome him with open arms at the gates of heaven.

(Contribution from roomates: James Lotira & Tom Nangoda: As refugees in Kakuma, they prepared meals together, shared same roof, attended same refugee school and shared the little resources they could afford together. This is not a final information. This however, covers as basic information about life of Peter Kubai from the time Tom Lokwel, James Lotira, Daniel Lotilu left Lorema village March 1995)