Musa*, age 11, was among the last unaccompanied minors to arrive in the U.S. before the suspension of the U.S. refugee resettlement program, and was certainly one of the last to arrive from such a life-threatening situation. At age 8, Musa was chased from his home in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and was …
The June 26th Supreme Court decision upholds parts of President Trump’s Executive Order and suspends travel for refugees who “lack any bona fide relationship with a person or entity in the United States.” This is a potentially devastating blow to refugees and goes against our American values of welcome. RefugePoint was founded to help refugees in life-threatening …
“Tesfaye* and his family, including his wife and six children, are refugees in Kenya. Tesfaye has been a refugee for 20 years, having escaped persecution in his home country of Ethiopia. In December 2016, the family was elated to be informed that their resettlement case processing was finally coming to an end and that they …
Image: 4-year old Mushkaad is finally reunited with her mother Samira in the U.S., after two years of separation. “How do you explain to the little girl that she will no longer be going to see her mother? How do you explain to the mother who anxiously has been waiting for her child that …
We continue with Part Three of our blog series (go back to Part One, go to Part Two), in which RefugePoint Resettlement Experts, who work across Africa to help refugees through the process resettlement, tell stories about how the recent executive order impacts the refugees whom they work with. Today’s story chronicles a refugee family from Somalia who fled to Kenya, as …
Imagine being violently chased from your home and losing everything – your home, business, friends and family members. And then, you are unable to return home, you are a refugee for 14 years, and you go through an 8 year vetting process to be resettled to the U.S. Finally, after 8 years of waiting, you …
RefugePoint has a team of Resettlement Experts who currently work in 20 countries across Africa, as well as in the Middle East and Southeast Asia, identifying refugees who are most in need of resettlement. Those include refugees who are in danger, survivors of torture and violence, woman and girls at risk, and unaccompanied children. Resettlement Experts identify those …
WBUR Radio Boston: Trump Takes Actions On Immigration, Refugees. Sasha Chanoff speaks and takes Q&A (9:50-12:20).
Huffington Post 2016: A Message To All Those Who Care About Refugees, by Sasha Chanoff
An Impossible Choice (a Show of Force film) We all need help in our times of greatest challenge. Today we are confronted with the question: what can I do to help refugees in their most desperate hours? RefugePoint started as a response to that question. You can watch our founding story in this Congo rescue video. With an unprecedented …
