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.
Huffington Post 2013: Election day in Kenya, Communications Officer Cheryl Hamilton writes about one refugee boy and his mother’s hope for his future. On March 3rd, RefugePoint’s Communication Officer Cheryl Hamilton joined Executive Director Sasha Chanoff as a blogger for the Huffington Post. In her first article, Hamilton recalls a conversation she had with a refugee …
November 25th is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, a day that is particularly relevant to RefugePoint’s mission to find lasting solutions for the world’s most vulnerable refugees. RefugePoint has increasingly focused on particularly vulnerable refugee women who are in perilous situations. Exposed to widespread sexual gender based violence (SGBV) and …
Aliah, a 23-year-old refugee, has a bubbly demeanor that disguises the monumental obstacles she faces every day. As the guardian for her younger siblings as well as her own kids, she has to cover rising rent and food costs in an African city where refugees are rarely able to find steady work. Her neighborhood has …
Huffington Post 2012: Founder and Executive Director Sasha Chanoff blogs about one of RefugePoint’s earliest clients finding his parents alive after 17 years.
Since January 2011, the political uprising in Egypt has dominated the international news. The fall of President Hosni Mubarak has led to the formidable task of implementing a new democracy, which has seldom been smooth. Just this week, Egypt’s highest court dissolved the parliament and called for a new constitution, leaving the country’s leadership under …
Imagine growing up in a small village where your family herds goats and sheep. One morning while reading under a tree, you suddenly see your neighbors running in every different direction. Dust swirls around them and you smell smoke. In the distance, there are men with large guns in trucks and you see that your …
Mako, a young 23-year-old Ethiopian refugee, begins to tell her story. Her back is straight, her hands are folded in her lap, and she looks directly at our RefugePoint Protection Officer. Her voice is strong. She doesn’t shake or pause like others in the past. In fact, Mako draws her chair closer to the desk, …
Fadumo and her children rarely slept consecutively in the same place while fleeing her war torn country – and sometimes not even inside. Motivated by a genuine fear that government agents from her former country continued to pursue her, the family slept on the floors of other refugees’ apartments, in abandoned buildings and on the …
The RefugePoint conference room is a brightly lit space where sun pours in from two sides and a circle of fifteen chairs can fit comfortably. Coffee mugs and tea line the back table while RefugePoint Counselors Lonah and Clotilda finalize the agenda on the front white board and then wait quietly for their fourteen guests …
Join us at RefugePoint’s 20th Anniversary Gala on Tuesday, October 14. Tickets are now on sale!
