WBUR: Refugee Resettlement: How it Works, And Why We Do It
WBUR/Congoscenti 2015: Refugee Resettlement: How It Works, And Why We Do It
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WBUR: How Are Refugees Screened In Massachusetts?
WBUR/Radio Boston 2015: How Are Refugees Screened In Massachusetts? Sasha Chanoff, co-founder and executive director of RefugePoint discusses the refugee screening process after the terror attacks in Paris.
The Good Lie film and refugee protection
The Good Lie is a feature film starring Reese Witherspoon about the resettlement to the US of the refugee children known as the Lost Boys and Girls of Sudan. These children escaped the Sudanese government’s attacks against its southern people between 1983 and 2005 that claimed more than two million lives and displaced many more millions. …
Boston Globe: A Lost Girl Shares Her Story
Boston Globe 2014: A Lost Girl Shares Her Story
RefugePoint’s Group Counseling Offers Survivors Support
When Kasoke first arrived at RefugePoint’s office, the Congolese refugee mother was frail from emaciation. She and her young son were malnourished and in need of critical medical attention. RefugePoint immediately enrolled her small family in our food program and medical services. As weeks passed and the staff learned more about her background, the young …
Medical Unit Manager helps make health insurance available to all refugees in Kenya
Esther Kamau likes to joke that she didn’t join RefugePoint, but that RefugePoint joined her. This is because Esther was the first person RefugePoint (then Mapendo International) hired after Sasha Chanoff and Dr. John Wagacha Burton founded the organization in 2005. Leaving behind a comfortable, stable career as a staff clinician in the private sector, …
Refugee Community Health Workers Reach Thousands
Asha’s* tiny frame does not do justice to the huge impact this 23-year-old Somali woman is making as a community health worker (CHW) in her refugee neighborhood in Nairobi. Since the launch of RefugePoint’s community health program in 2011, our small team of CHWs has provided more than 5,500 urban refugees with critical health information …
The Moth: An Impossible Choice
The Moth 2014: An Impossible Choice
Sasha Chanoff Wins 2013 Gleitsman International Activist Award
Advocate for refugees in Africa to be honored at November 5th ceremony Cambridge, MA—The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has named social entrepreneur Sasha Chanoff this year’s recipient of the Gleitsman International Activist Award for his tireless work as Founder and Executive Director of RefugePoint, a nonprofit organization that protects …
ABC News: A Place Called Home: A Refugee Family’s Journey of Hope
ABC World News 2013: ABC World News revisits their 2010 resettlement story after RefugePoint helps facilitate a reunion between the Darfuri family and their missing fourteen year old daughter after nine years of separation.