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Private Sponsorship is “one of the boldest innovations in American refugee resettlement history,” Says RefugePoint at One-Year Anniversary of Welcome Corps

| January 19, 2024
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BOSTON, January 19, 2024 – One year ago today, Secretary of State Antony Blinken announced Welcome Corps, which empowers everyday Americans to play a leading role in welcoming refugees to the U.S. through private sponsorship groups. “Private sponsorship is one of the boldest innovations in American refugee resettlement history,” says Sasha Chanoff, CEO of RefugePoint, …

AP: Their lives were torn apart by war in Africa. A family hopes a new US program will help them reunite

| December 26, 2023
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Worried about his mother’s health, Jacob Mabil tried for months to persuade her to let him start the process that would take her from a sprawling refugee camp where she had spent almost a decade after fleeing violence in South Sudan.

5 Key Takeaways from the 2023 Global Refugee Forum

| December 20, 2023
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By Ali Pappavaselio, RefugePoint with contributions from Kari Diener, Amy Slaughter, Martin Anderson, and Sasha Chanoff   The Global Refugee Forum (GRF), a quadrennial event and the main venue to drive and review progress toward the objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees, took place last week in Geneva, Switzerland. RefugePoint and the Refugee Self-Reliance …

RefugePoint Welcomes Biden Administration’s Expansion of Private Sponsorship Program for Refugees

| December 19, 2023

Americans can now directly support refugees they know through private sponsorship   FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE BOSTON, December 19, 2023 — RefugePoint, the organization that partners with refugees to access life-changing solutions, welcomes today’s announcement by the U.S. State Department of  the expansion of The Welcome Corps. This private sponsorship program within the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program allows people …

Mark

| December 18, 2023
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“At least I will become a light to my family, community, and everyone. If I tell you what the Economic Mobility Pathway means, it means life to us,” said Mark, a 27-year-old refugee from South Sudan. In the 1980s, Mark’s parents fled to Kenya, escaping the civil war in Sudan, and found refuge in Nairobi. …

Refugees stand ready to ‘share the responsibility.’ Let them.

| December 14, 2023
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By Amy Slaughter, Senior Advisor at RefugePoint, and Kari Jorgensen Diener, Executive Director at Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative As governments and humanitarians convene in Geneva for the second quadrennial Global Refugee Forum (GRF) in the latest attempt to negotiate more equitable responsibility-sharing for the world’s refugees as stipulated by the Global Compact for Refugees adopted by …

The Importance of Meaningful Refugee Participation and Leadership in RefugePoint’s GRF Pledges

| December 12, 2023
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By Martin Anderson, Director of International Programs / Geneva Representative RefugePoint has made 4 pledges in the context of the 2023 Global Refugee Forum (GRF). They are: Promoting holistic self-reliance for refugees, other forcibly displaced and stateless people, and host communities Facilitating access to resettlement through client support and strategic partnerships Facilitating access to family …

Dieudonne

| December 12, 2023
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Most days, Dieudonne wakes up early to begin shuttling passengers around the streets of Nairobi on his motorcycle. To provide for his family, he works as a “boda boda” driver (a motorcycle taxi). Today, he is able to pay rent, buy groceries, and pay for children’s school fees with his earnings as a boda boda …

The 2023 Global Refugee Forum: Why We’re There

| December 12, 2023
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By Martin Anderson, Geneva Representative For media inquiries, please contact Alexis Felder at felder@refugepoint.org.  In 2018, the United Nations General Assembly endorsed the Global Compact on Refugees, the most significant piece of refugee-related policy in more than 50 years. It led to the creation of the Global Refugee Forum (GRF), a quadrennial meeting of senior humanitarian …

RefugePoint’s Leadership Role at the Global Refugee Forum

| December 11, 2023
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By Ali Pappavaselio, RefugePoint For media inquiries, please contact Alexis Felder at felder@refugepoint.org.    The Global Refugee Forum (GRF), a quadrennial event taking place from December 13-15 of this year, is the main venue to drive and review progress towards the objectives of the Global Compact on Refugees, which include:  Easing pressures on host countries …