Travel with RefugePoint
Throughout the spring of 2012, follow RefugePoint staff across Africa and learn about our efforts to find lasting solutions for some of the world’s most vulnerable refugees. Learn more
Freedom for Congolese Family after Ten Years
"I still can't believe we are here. It’s like a miracle. In Kenya, we had no freedom but now we are all free." Learn more
An improbable reunion
Six years ago, Jonathan thought his wife had been killed in the Congo. Today, they're reunited. Watch the incredible story here Learn more
Bol and Kuach were orphaned brothers from Sudan
RefugePoint cared for the boys and reunited them with their grandmother. Last October, the boys saw their grandmother for the first time in years at a reunion in San Diego. Learn more
Refugee orphans reunion
Many refugees flee camps for urban areas, where they fall off the humanitarian radar. These children didn't have anyone to care for them. Learn more
This woman and her child fled persecution…
...only to be attacked in a refugee camp. Mapendo helped to get them out of danger, to rebuild their lives anew. Learn more
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Kakuma mother worries she will be forced to marry
Mako, a young 23-year-old Ethiopian refugee, begins to tell her story. Her back is straight, her hands are folded in her lap, and she looks directly at our RefugePoint Protection Officer. Her voice is strong. She doesn’t shake or pause like others in the past. In fact, Mako draws her chair closer to the desk, [...]
From Fear to Food: Family one step closer to stability
Fadumo and her children rarely slept consecutively in the same place for more than a few days when she first arrived in Kenya from her war torn country – and sometimes not even inside. Motivated by a genuine fear that government agents from her former country continued to pursue her family in the densely populated [...]
Counseling Offers Hope to Survivors of Gender-Based Violence
The RefugePoint conference room in Nairobi is a brightly lit space where sun pours in from two sides and a circle of fifteen chairs can fit comfortably. Coffee mugs and tea line the back table while RefugePoint Counselors Lonah and Clotilda finalize the agenda on the front white board and then wait quietly for their [...]
