ABC News: From Darfur to Martha’s Vineyard

ABC World News 2010: ABC World News covers the resettlement of one Darfuri refugee family that RefugePoint (then Mapendo International) helped.

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 their first-born son Mustafa…

Click here to hear Bob Woodruff tell the full story how RefugePoint was able to help the Kabashi family.

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