May 25 15
‘I Found My Brother on REFUNITE After 8 Years Apart!”
This story was recalled by a Somali refugee named Haroon*. The details described are accurate to the best of his recollection.
Jan 15 15
A Critical Look at REFUNITE’s User Experience in Kampala
In this blogpost, Purity Kahoru, our new IT Support Coordinator, reflects on a recent visit to Kampala, Uganda. I recently travelled to Kampala to improve the user experience on the family reconnection platform, www.refunite.org. Another goal was to test our SMS notification system. My overall question was: how can we improve the user experience on the REFUNITE platform?
Jan 13 15
Finding Hope: Somali Cousins Reconnect After 17 Years Apart
This story was recalled by a Somali refugee named Zahra*. The details described are accurate to the best of her recollection. Zahra Ahmed, a Somali refugee, was reconnected with her cousin through the REFUNITE platform after 17 years apart. Before the civil war broke out in Somalia in 1991, Zahra and Abdi were your typical lively children. They went to madrasa (Islamic school), played and spent a lot of time together.
Nov 19 14
Lost Cousins Reconnected After 10 Years of Separation
This story was recalled by Congolese refugee Cedric*. The details described are accurate to the best of his recollection. After more than 10 years of separation, Congolese refugee Musoni is now reconnected with his cousin through the REFUNITE (www.refunite.org) platform. Cedric Tugiramahoro and his younger brother were born to Burundian parents and raised in North Kivu district of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). During their early years, his cousin sister Yolanda Nduwayezu would occasionally visit them in DRC. Sadly, Cedric’s parents passed away when they were very young; he doesn’t even remember the year it happened. Despite the 14-year age difference between the cousins, Cedric…
Aug 28 14
A Visit to REFUNITE’s Lab in Dadaab Refugee Camp
August 27, 2014 — In mid-July, REFUNITE’s Africa Director Nishant Shah visited Dadaab Refugee Camp in Kenya. Home to more than 330,000 Somali refugees, Dadaab is a critical location for REFUNITE’s Outreach Volunteers, who register separated families through mobile phones. On his visit, Nishant met with the outreach team, as well as community leaders in the camp and representatives from REFUNITE partner, the Kenya Red Cross Society. Meeting participants discussed current goals and possibilities for future innovations as we work to register one million forcibly displaced people by 2015. Check out Nishant’s photos for the on-the-ground view of Dadaab. Nishant…
Jul 9 13
https://info.refunite.org/sites/default/files/pdf/PressReleases/press_release_july_9.pdf https://info.refunite.org/sites/default/files/pdf/PressReleases/press_release_july_9.pdf https://info.refunite.org/sites/default/files/pdf/PressReleases/press_release_july_9.pdf https://info.refunite.org/sites/default/files/pdf/PressReleases/press_release_july_9.pdf https://info.refunite.org/sites/default/files/pdf/PressReleases/press_release_july_9.pdf On July 6, 2013 Refugees United launched a new nation-wide awareness campaign to connect Kenyan youth to their missing loved ones. This campaign taps into the power of storytelling and builds on the popular comic book universe “Shujaaz,” invented by Well Told Story, an Emmy Award winning company specializing in comic books and multiple, trans media for good. Click here to read more.
Jun 20 13
Reconnected after 22 years of separation
In support of World Refugee Day, Refugees United is excited to share one of our latest reconnection stories! As tragic as this story starts, we are touched with how it ends, as so many Refugees United stories do! The following is the story of Rahma* and how she found her father and brother through the Refugees United online platform after 22 years of separation. Rahma and her husband, Said, recounted their story to Refugees United staff members on April 4th, 2013. Please note that this story was told in Somali and has been translated to English for use by…
Jun 10 13
Second ‘Hack For Good’ shows off new ideas to connect refugees’ families
Refugees United and Ericsson hosted a hackathon in San Francisco, USA, from June 8th and 9th 2013 Bringing together some of the best technological innovators of the Bay Area The semi-finalists from the United States are runners-up in the Global Hack for Good Ericsson and Refugees United will announce the finalists on World Refugee Day on June 20th via a special Google Hangout event San Francisco, USA – With the global number of forcibly displaced people at 43 million and growing, there is an urgent need to reconnect refugee families who have been separated due to conflict, natural disaster,…
May 10 13
Refugees United’s East Africa Camp Coordinator, Natalia Alvarado and Outreach Volunteer, Farhiya Shazz visiting a Hafyo Youth Group Seminar at the Kobciye Community Centre in Kenya. They presented Refugees United’s work to reconnect families separated by war and conflict. Hafyo Youth Group is a Somali organization advocating against female genital mutilation.
May 7 13
Refugees United @ NYUStern: Using mobile technology to reconnect families separated by war
The students at NYU Stern School of Business were up for a treat last week as co-founder of Refugees United, Christopher Mikkelsen, guest lectured at their University. “The lecture at NYU was interesting as it bridged the knowledge of technology students in New York with the realities of the millions of people we help in some of the poorest places on earth.” Says Christopher Mikkelsen “Hopefully the students took away not only a sense of our work to reconnect families, but a deeper understanding of people so different from them” The lecture revolved around the prospects that the ever-increasing social…
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