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 live-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 is a lifeline for forgotten refugees. We provide life-saving interventions and have helped to create lasting solutions for over 20,000 refugees in Africa. Help support our work by connecting with us: To follow our work, sign up for our email list. To see photos of our staff at work and the refugees we serve, [...]
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 [...]
Message to RefugePoint staff across Africa
Dear RefugePoint staff, I know everyone has been working extraordinarily hard this year. In Nairobi our caseload has increased significantly. We are busier than ever there. Those of us working in locations across Africaoften face adverse and sometimes even dangerous conditions. But our work is paying off in amazing ways. We’ve exceeded the goals we [...]
“Using My Strength”
As I mentioned in my last post, on December 1st buses spread out through refugee-populated areas in Nairobi to promote the 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence. Community workers spoke, performed skits, and sang songs in order to educate men, women and children about gender equality and the many problems caused by sexual and [...]
Gender Based Violence
One of the most significant challenges refugees face is insecurity. After fleeing violence in their home countries, refugees often arrive to a country of asylum and continue to deal with issues of safety. They might not have any documentation, they might be alone and often they do not speak the language. These challenges put them [...]
ABC World News with Diane Sawyer highlights RefugePoint’s work with Darfuri family
Lana and Munawar Kabashi of Darfur remember the killers — Arab militias called the Janjaweed — riding into their village on horseback and shooting, burning, and destroying the homes and massacring the villagers. In the confusion, they were separated from their five year old daughter Muna, but managed to escape with two other daughters and [...]
