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…

Maja Okholm, Refuges United’s Communication Assistant, reports from Nairobi, Kenya. Recently, I had the pleasure of spending an entire day with with Refugees United‘s outreach volunteer, Farhiya. Together we went on a work assignment to Eastleigh, an area in Nairobi with a large Somali population, sometimes referred to as ‘Little Mogadishu.’ Here, you really experience Somali hospitality first hand. Through this experience I also learned more about Refugees United‘s outreach programmes aimed at reconnecting families separated by conflict, war and disaster.  The recipe is actually surprisingly simple, with only three ingredients, namely: one outreach volunteer (Farhiya), one community with a large refugee population…

Having just returned from a whirlwind two and a half days of Wired11 conference in London I’m chock-full of inspiration and lingering thoughts from wicked conversations. Presided over by David Rowan and a rocking Wired team, the setting was picture perfect, taking up parts of the St. Pancras Renaissance Hotel with all its old-world charm of booking offices, arrival halls and a busy-quiet atmosphere. Some 300 people attended from the worlds of advertising and startups, tech, biotech and the media, with everyone in a beautiful mishmash of thoughts and conversations across all Olympic thought-disciplines. While all talks were fascinating and…