When Kasoke first arrived at RefugePoint’s office, the Congolese refugee mother was frail from emaciation. She and her young son were malnourished and in need of critical medical attention. RefugePoint immediately enrolled her small family in our food program and medical services. As weeks passed and the staff learned more about her background, the young …
Esther Kamau likes to joke that she didn’t join RefugePoint, but that RefugePoint joined her. This is because Esther was the first person RefugePoint (then Mapendo International) hired after Sasha Chanoff and Dr. John Wagacha Burton founded the organization in 2005. Leaving behind a comfortable, stable career as a staff clinician in the private sector, …
Asha’s* tiny frame does not do justice to the huge impact this 23-year-old Somali woman is making as a community health worker (CHW) in her refugee neighborhood in Nairobi. Since the launch of RefugePoint’s community health program in 2011, our small team of CHWs has provided more than 5,500 urban refugees with critical health information …
The Moth 2014: An Impossible Choice
Advocate for refugees in Africa to be honored at November 5th ceremony Cambridge, MA—The Center for Public Leadership (CPL) at Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) has named social entrepreneur Sasha Chanoff this year’s recipient of the Gleitsman International Activist Award for his tireless work as Founder and Executive Director of RefugePoint, a nonprofit organization that protects …
ABC World News 2013: ABC World News revisits their 2010 resettlement story after RefugePoint helps facilitate a reunion between the Darfuri family and their missing fourteen year old daughter after nine years of separation.
NPR/WBUR Here and Now 2013: Founder and Executive Director Sasha Chanoff discusses UN findings that the average refugee is displaced for 17 years.
60 Minutes 2013: 12 years after airing a special on the historic resettlement of the Lost Boys of Sudan to the U.S. CBS’ 60 Minutes follows up with a retrospective featuring an interview with Founder and Executive Director Sasha Chanoff.
NPR/WBUR Here and Now 2013: Founder and Executive Director Sasha Chanoff joins former Lost Girl Yar Ayuel as she reflects on her experiences as a refugee and the dangers refugee girls still face today.
Boston Globe 2013: Founder and Executive Director Sasha Chanoff writes editorial about how the Lost Girls of Sudan were left out of humanitarian programming, and the ongoing plight of refugee girls today. Read Executive Director Sasha Chanoff’s Op-Ed in the Boston Globe about the forgotten refugee girls of Sudan.
