A modest proposal.

• Position: Clothings designed for refugees by Nike Inc.

Clothing designers can sometimes change how people live and pray, as they did for young Somali women in Kenya's refugee camps. Volleyball is one of the few leisure activities for these women, whose families fled the war in neighboring Somalia in the 1990s. But spiking and serving can be difficult while wearing the traditional Somali hijab: the players tend to get tangled up in the long head scarves. "Most of us are Muslims, and we want to preserve our religion," says Farhiyo Farah Ibrahim, 23. The United Nations refugee agency, along with Nike...