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Resettlement: Our Most Successful Year Ever
This year was our most successful ever in terms of resettlement submissions. Though 2015 fourth quarter statistics are still being tabulated, we know that we have surpassed last year’s totals and referred more than 5,000 refugees for resettlement during 2015. Since 2005, we have referred 32,454 refugees for resettlement. During this quarter, our staff referred approximately…
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Event: “Reimagining Refugee Futures: From Exclusion to Inclusion”
With forced displacement at an all-time high, RefugePoint acknowledges that it will take the entire international community to come together to find lasting solutions. With this in mind, we hosted a Jeffersonian dinner entitled “Reimagining Refugee Futures: From Exclusion to Inclusion” at the Hampshire House in Boston on October 28. Our discussion, which included about…
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WBUR/Congoscenti 2015: 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 Kind World 2015: Off The List
WBUR Kind World 2015: Kind World #18: Off The List. Sasha Chanoff, of Somerville, was in his mid-20s when he faced an urgent decision unlike any he’d encountered before — and more than 100 lives depended on it.
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WBUR/Radio Boston 2015: 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.
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UNHCR – NGO Collaboration Around Resettlement Identification
View Report: UNHCR – NGO Collaboration Around Resettlement Identification
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RefugePoint and the Current Refugee Crisis
Dear Friends, Since the influx of refugees into Europe became headline news in August, our plates have been more full than usual. Underlying this highly visible desperate search for safety is the fact that globally approximately 60 million people are displaced by conflict, more than at any point on record. For the past decade our…
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RefugePoint expands into Rwanda, Zambia, and Ivory Coast
In 2005, RefugePoint was operational in one African country – Kenya. Since that time we have expanded to 18 locations in 14 countries across the continent. Our newest efforts include projects in refugee camps and in urban settings in Rwanda, Zambia, and the Ivory Coast. RefugePoint is also preparing to expand to address the needs…
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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.…
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Boston Globe 2014: A Lost Girl Shares Her Story
Boston Globe 2014: A Lost Girl Shares Her Story