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Refugee-Centered Labor Mobility
RefugePoint Founder, Sasha Chanoff, recently presented at Expanding Global Refugee Labour Mobility: Implementing the Three-Year Strategy, hosted by Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada and UNHCR. The title of Sasha’s talk was Refugee-Centered Labor Mobility Sasha spoke about the importance of ensuring that this pathway to a new life is rooted first and foremost in the…
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RefugePoint’s Contributions at the 2021 ATCR
RefugePoint recently participated in the virtual Annual Tripartite Consultations on Resettlement, the leading global policy event on resettlement and complementary pathways. As always, we played a prominent role in a number of ways. On the first day, our relatively new family reunification and economic mobility programs were highlighted as successful examples of innovative complementary pathways…
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Enabling Refugee Youth to Access Education
In January 2017, Refugepoint received a grant from the IKEA Foundation that launched our Secondary Education Scholarship Program. The scholarship program covered school fees and supplies such as uniforms, bags, and books for each of the students selected. In order to assist more of our clients’ children, we chose day schools for the majority of…
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Community Health at RefugePoint
RefugePoint implements a robust community health program that reaches approximately ten thousand refugees annually with critical information of public health importance. RefugePoint also partners with local government health departments in support of immunization and other public health campaigns. When refugees are struggling with mental and physical health issues, they cannot work and support themselves and…
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“A Victim of Circumstances” – Authored and Read by Refugees
By: Anne-Marie, Galgalo & John RefugePoint Community Navigators The poem “A Victim of Circumstances” was co-authored by three Community Navigators from RefugePoint. We are staff members and refugees ourselves, working in the communities around Nairobi where our refugee clients live. We hail from Rwanda, Ethiopia, and DR Congo. Our group’s diversity made for a variety…
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Preserving the Humanitarian Nature of Resettlement – A New Report by RefugePoint
Read the full report here. Or read the 2-page executive summary here. The past few years have taken a heavy toll on refugee resettlement. The total number of refugees resettled worldwide dropped from a high of 163,000 in 2016 to a low of 40,000 in 2020, primarily due to the contraction of the U.S. resettlement…
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RefugePoint’s 2020 Annual Report
Today, we are excited to share the impact of our work through our 2020 Annual Report! Despite last year’s unique obstacles, we were deeply inspired by the inventive ways in which our staff adapted to find lasting solutions for at-risk refugees. We would not have been able to achieve the impact that we did in 2020 without the creativity and resilience…
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President Biden Raises the Refugee Ceiling to 62,500
Today President Biden signed an Emergency Presidential Determination on Refugee Admissions and raised the ceiling to 62,500 for this fiscal year. This welcome and necessary step dramatically changes the 15,000 resettlement number that the former President had put in place for 2021, which effectively shut America’s doors and discriminated against refugees in Africa and the…
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RefugePoint’s Statement on President Biden’s Presidential Determination Maintaining the Lowest Resettlement Quota in the Program’s History
Today President Biden walked back his commitment to increase refugee resettlement for 2021. At the start of his administration, President Biden announced that he would increase the U.S. resettlement quota to 62,500 this year, citing grave humanitarian concerns around the world, and the importance of U.S. leadership in supporting refugees at this pivotal moment in…
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Measuring the Impacts of COVID-19 on Refugee Households
The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a global loss of lives and livelihoods, from which the world is only now beginning to recover. In Kenya, the pandemic, and related restrictions on movement, have had a devastating impact on the lives of urban refugees, many of whom depend upon informal work for survival. In an effort to…