Antoinette is a Community Navigator who works in a large residential area called Kasarani, on the Northeastern side of Nairobi. We hope you enjoy getting to know more about Antoinette and the important role that Community Navigators play in refugee health! Why did you decide to become a RefugePoint Community Navigator? “I consider myself first …
RefugePoint’s team of 13 Community Navigators support health education and provide information to about 10,000 refugees and locals per year. Who knows the needs of a community best? The people who live and work in that community. RefugePoint’s team of Community Navigators (CNs), now comprised of 13 team members (April 2019), are refugees who …
“I think I have always wanted to become a doctor. When I’m done with my studies, and when I have become a doctor, I want to help the people around me. My main dream is to start a hospital where our patients can get quality healthcare for free. Sometimes when people have to undergo very …
As an artist, Semret works with two mediums – words and wool. Semret began her career as a journalist, but her reporting was one of the reasons that she felt insecure and was forced to flee her home country in 1996. Although Semret continues to write books, and contribute to magazines, her main source of …
“I want to do this interview in English” Fawzia happily stated. “I have been attending English classes, and now I can speak it with no problem,” she told us, smiling. “When I arrived to Canada for the first time, I didn’t know English. Life was very hard, and the winter was so cold, but now …
It is just after 6:00 a.m., and the gates to Burma market, one of Nairobi’s largest meat markets, are about to open. Throughout the day, over 20,000 people – clients from restaurants, butcheries, and individuals, will descend on the market to buy their meat in bulk. Most of the meat sellers waiting at the gate …
“My personal mantra is ‘If you do good, good things will happen to you in the future’ (‘Ukifanya mazuri, mazuri yatakutendekea mbeleni.’) that is why I take care of the girls,” Angelique told us. In 2014, Angelique arrived to Kenya alone, after fleeing from her home country of Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). Upon her …
“At the age of 28, it wasn’t easy for me to accept that I was the head of a household of 11 and that I had to be the breadwinner. It was hard for me to accept that the whole family was looking up to me. I have now accepted that role and I do …
What is it like to be a child refugee? Edith, a former child refugee shares her story. In 1994, at the age of three, I was forced to flee my home in Rwanda to escape the Rwandan genocide. I still remember running in the forest as a little girl – running over dead bodies, hearing …
A RefugePoint Child Protection Expert’s Thoughts from the Emergency Evacuation Transit Mechanism (ETM) in Niamey, Niger. “What if it were your nephew?” As a proud auntie, this is the question I ask myself when writing child protection assessments for refugee children evacuated from Libya to Niger. The children, mainly teenagers from Eritrea, Somalia and Ethiopia, …
