WBUR: Displacement Can Last a Lifetime For Many Refugees
NPR/WBUR Here and Now 2013: Founder and Executive Director Sasha Chanoff discusses UN findings that the average refugee is displaced for 17 years.
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60 Minutes: The Lost Boys of Sudan: 12 Years Later
60 Minutes 2013: 12 years after airing a special on the historic resettlement of the Lost Boys of Sudan to the U.S. CBS’ 60 Minutes follows up with a retrospective featuring an interview with Founder and Executive Director Sasha Chanoff.
WBUR: Adolescent Girl Refugees Face Greatest Risks
NPR/WBUR Here and Now 2013: Founder and Executive Director Sasha Chanoff joins former Lost Girl Yar Ayuel as she reflects on her experiences as a refugee and the dangers refugee girls still face today.
Boston Globe: How the lost girls became the forgotten girls
Boston Globe 2013: Founder and Executive Director Sasha Chanoff writes editorial about how the Lost Girls of Sudan were left out of humanitarian programming, and the ongoing plight of refugee girls today. Read Executive Director Sasha Chanoff’s Op-Ed in the Boston Globe about the forgotten refugee girls of Sudan.
Huffington Post: Election day in Kenya, Communications Officer Cheryl Hamilton writes about one refugee boy and his mother’s hope for his future
Huffington Post 2013: Election day in Kenya, Communications Officer Cheryl Hamilton writes about one refugee boy and his mother’s hope for his future. On March 3rd, RefugePoint’s Communication Officer Cheryl Hamilton joined Executive Director Sasha Chanoff as a blogger for the Huffington Post. In her first article, Hamilton recalls a conversation she had with a refugee …
Refugee Women and Civil Society
November 25th is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a day that is particularly relevant to RefugePoint’s mission to find lasting solutions for the world’s most vulnerable refugees. RefugePoint has increasingly focused on particularly vulnerable refugee women who are in perilous situations. Exposed to widespread sexual gender based violence (SGBV) and …
A universal challenge, childcare poses additional obstacle for refugees
Aliah, a 23-year-old refugee, has a bubbly demeanor that disguises the monumental obstacles she faces every day. As the guardian for her younger siblings as well as her own kids, she has to cover rising rent and food costs in an African city where refugees are rarely able to find steady work. Her neighborhood has …
Huffington Post: Refugee Finds His Parents Alive After Seventeen Years
Huffington Post 2012: Founder and Executive Director Sasha Chanoff blogs about one of RefugePoint’s earliest clients finding his parents alive after 17 years.
Remembering Refugees During a Revolution
Since January 2011, the political uprising in Egypt has dominated the international news. The fall of President Hosni Mubarak has led to the formidable task of implementing a new democracy, which has seldom been smooth. Just this week, Egypt’s highest court dissolved the parliament and called for a new constitution, leaving the country’s leadership under …
RefugePoint reaches out to deaf community
Imagine growing up in a small village where your family herds goats and sheep. One morning while reading under a tree, you suddenly see your neighbors running in every different direction. Dust swirls around them and you smell smoke. In the distance, there are men with large guns in trucks and you see that your …