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The Importance of Meaningful Refugee Participation and Leadership in RefugePoint’s GRF Pledges

| December 12, 2023
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By Martin Anderson, Director of International Programs / Geneva Representative RefugePoint has made 4 pledges in the context of the 2023 Global Refugee Forum (GRF). They are: Promoting holistic self-reliance for refugees, other forcibly displaced and stateless people, and host communities Facilitating access to resettlement through client support and strategic partnerships Facilitating access to family …

Dieudonne

| December 12, 2023
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Most days, Dieudonne wakes up early to begin shuttling passengers around the streets of Nairobi on his motorcycle. To provide for his family, he works as a “boda boda” driver (a motorcycle taxi). Today, he is able to pay rent, buy groceries, and pay for children’s school fees with his earnings as a boda boda …

The 2023 Global Refugee Forum: Why We’re There

| December 12, 2023
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By Martin Anderson, Geneva Representative For media inquiries, please contact Alexis Felder at felder@refugepoint.org.  In 2018, the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the Global Compact on Refugees, the most significant piece of refugee-related policy in more than 50 years. It led to the creation of the Global Refugee Forum (GRF), a quadrennial meeting of senior humanitarian …

RefugePoint’s Leadership Role at the Global Refugee Forum

| December 11, 2023
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By Ali Pappavaselio, RefugePoint For media inquiries, please contact Alexis Felder at felder@refugepoint.org.    The Global Refugee Forum (GRF), a quadrennial event taking place from December 13-15 of this year, is the main venue to drive and review progress towards the objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees, which include:  Easing pressures on host countries …

Jean’s Story, EMPP – 2023

| December 7, 2023
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After spending more than 26 years as a refugee in Nairobi, Kenya, Jean, a professional nurse, permanently relocated to Canada through the Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot (EMPP) in June 2023. This program connects refugees to job opportunities that allow them to relocate to a safe, new country. RefugePoint partners with the Government of Canada, UNHCR, …

Two New Milestones For RefugePoint’s Labor Mobility Team

| November 10, 2023
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Last month, RefugePoint’s labor mobility team celebrated several new milestones.    Eleven Refugees Depart for Canada in October  Last month, a cohort of eleven refugees departed for Canada through the Economic Mobility Pathways Pilot (EMPP) to start new jobs as Continuing Care Assistants, following months of COVID-related delays. “It is a process that has taken …

The Global Refugee Forum & RefugePoint’s Involvement

| November 9, 2023
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The Global Refugee Forum will take place in Geneva, Switzerland from December 13 to December 15, 2023.   What is the Global Refugee Forum? The Global Refugee Forum (GRF) is the world’s largest gathering in support of refugees and the communities that host them. Held once every four years in Geneva, Switzerland, it is attended …

Khadija: “As a mother, I am happy”

| November 8, 2023
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As a child, Khadija* was forced to flee her home in Somalia to escape a forced marriage. She never had a chance to pursue her education. Now that she is a mother of three, Khadija’s greatest dream is that her children receive an education.  “I don’t want my kids to be like me because I …

Tigist

| October 25, 2023
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After fleeing war in her home country of Ethiopia at age 15, Tigist arrived in Kenya as a refugee in 2012. The war had claimed her parents’ lives and had separated her from her siblings. Tigist met her husband in Kenya and had two children. Tigist later separated from her husband when he began abusing …

The Power of Education: Latifa’s Story

| October 23, 2023
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When Latifa, 20, arrived in Nairobi, Kenya, in 2009 with her grandmother and siblings, the family struggled to survive. Latifa and her siblings tragically lost their parents during the militia attacks in Somalia that forced them to flee. The children were unable to attend school in Nairobi because they had to work in order to …