In December 2019, RefugePoint organized a community strategy training for Community Navigators to ensure grassroots level access to maternal health information. Co-facilitated by the Kenyan Ministry of Health, the training focused on facilitation and presentation skills to enable Community Navigators to conduct community trainings throughout Nairobi, Kenya. Topics that were covered during the training included: …
An equal world is an enabled world. This month we are celebrating International Women’s Day #IWD2020 by highlighting the achievements of refugee women and RefugePoint staff, and increasing visibility about the issues and inequalities they face. Helping Refugee Women on their Journey to Self-Reliance Helping refugees to become self-reliant, so that they can meet their …
Farida, a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), knows what it’s like to arrive in Nairobi as a refugee. She knows what it is like to begin again without a home or source of income. She also knows the skills and determination that it takes to become a successful entrepreneur and enjoys sharing …
In November 2019, Pierre, a RefugePoint client from Nairobi, Kenya, was invited to participate in a week-long training in Sanremo, Italy, which focused on human rights and internal displacement. Before Pierre was forced to flee his home country of Burundi in 2015, he had been working as a community worker with an NGO focused on …
Tens of thousands of children attempting to flee to Europe during the last few years have been at great risk of being exposed to child trafficking and exploitation. Closed borders, lack of cross-national coordination, and dire and inhumane living conditions in refugee camps and child-care centers put children at high risk of becoming victims of …
From December 16-18, 2019, RefugePoint participated in the Global Refugee Forum (GRF) in Geneva, Switzerland. The goal of the Forum was to bolster the international response to refugee situations. Guided by the Global Compact on Refugees (GCR), the GRF was an opportunity for the international community to pledge collective action and announce bold, new …
During RefugePoint’s business training, clients are encouraged to set personal goals that they can work to accomplish within the first three to six months of launching their businesses. Soni, a single mother of two young children, knew exactly what she aimed to achieve: the ability to pay her rent and cover her son’s school fees. …
“I always wanted to study, but I didn’t have the means. As a single mother of three with no husband, my priorities took a back seat. I was most concerned with putting food on the table. When I expressed my hopes and needs to my case manager, she told me that there might be a …
By: Amy Slaughter (Chief Strategy Officer) Would you be able to work if your kids weren’t in school? Or if you didn’t have stable housing? What if you had a serious, untreated health condition or lacked food security? The factors that allow us to thrive and support ourselves are all interconnected. So too are they …
“Ever since I was young, I loved education. When I met RefugePoint, they helped me to enroll in my final year of primary school. They hadn’t yet started supporting students to attend high school,” Daniel, an unaccompanied minor from the Democratic Republic of Congo, told us. After Daniel completed primary school, Kimani, RefugePoint’s Education Officer, …
