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, [...]
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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 [...]
Somali mother escapes with daughters by sea
Sahra leans across the arm rest on our flight to Nairobi and whispers that she does not want her face shown in the photo, but that she very much wants to share her story. In fact, she hopes when her daughters graduate from high school to write a book about their harrowing journey from Somalia [...]
RefugePoint addresses East Africa famine on “The Bill Good Show”
Vancouver-based radio station CKNW interviews RefugePoint about the current famine in East Africa and how people can help. To hear the interview with Executive Director Sasha Chanoff and field-based Protection Officer Megan DaPisa, listen here.
New York Times Magazine features RefugePoint’s life saving urban food program
A protracted famine in Somalia continues to displace hundreds of thousands of people from their homeland. Hungry and desperate, Somalis appeal for help from humanitarian organizations in refugee camps and urban cities throughout the horn of Africa. At RefugePoint’s urban care clinic in Nairobi, our social workers report seeing an increased number of Somalis among [...]
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RefugePoint Client Story of Survival Featured on NBC
“People who stand tall sometimes carry the heaviest burdens.”
RefugePoint helps create UNHCR-NGO Toolkit for Resettlement Cooperation
After one and a half years in the making, the fruits of an important project that RefugePoint has been involved in have now been released on the UN Refugee Agency’s website. RefugePoint was one of the driving forces and authors behind the new UNHCR-NGO Toolkit for Practical Cooperation on Resettlement. The idea for the Toolkit [...]
RefugePoint Presents at Conference on African Refugees
RefugePoint’s Operations Officer Marty Anderson, right, with UN High Commissioner for Refugees Antonio Guterres, middle, and ECDC President Dr. Tsehaye Teffara, left. Every year, the Ethiopian Community Development Council hosts an international conference devoted exclusively to African refugees. This year, Operations Officer Marty Anderson represented RefugePoint and led a panel on how NGOs can help [...]
