Abdinasir’s work involves helping REFUNITE staff to organize community forums, facilitating meetings with other outreach officers or people of interest, providing feedback or input on REFUNITE projects and participating in promotional events and radio campaigns. Andorra came to Kenya from Somalia in 2009. He studied English at Windle Trust, Counselling at Jesuit Refugee Service (JRS) and Computer Packages at Don Bosco in Kakuma.

Social entrepreneur David Mikkelsen founded REFUNITE in 2008 with his brother Christopher Mikkelsen based on a personal experience trying to reconnect a young Afghan refugee with his family. Realizing the lack of any global, IT-based infrastructure to help refugees locate missing family, the two brothers set out to change the state of things and founded REFUNITE, a non-profit tech organization with the mission of reconnecting refugee families across the globe. In their capacity as co-founders and CEOs, the Mikkelsens have built the first-ever family-tracing platform for refugees, capitalizing on the ever-growing mobile phone usage across Africa and working closely with…

Kaj-Erik Relander is a Senior Independent Advisor to the ICT, Aerospace and Defence Division of the sovereign investment vehicle Mubadala Development Company in Abu Dhabi. He helps the management and boards of different portfolio companies with issues such as finance function development, investment plans, workouts and restructuring with focus on the Gulf region and emerging markets. Kaj-Erik brings vast experience from private equity and venture capital and supports REFUNITE on high-level fundraising strategies, among other things.

Kusono’s work involves helping REFUNITE staff to organize community forums, facilitating meetings with other outreach officers or people of interest, providing feedback or input on REFUNITE projects and participating in promotional events and radio campaigns. Kusono came to Kenya from Sudan in 2010.

Social entrepreneur Christopher Mikkelsen founded REFUNITE in 2008 with his brother David Mikkelsen based on a personal experience trying to reconnect a young Afghan refugee with his family. Realizing the lack of any global, IT-based infrastructure to help refugees locate missing family, the two brothers set out to change the state of things and founded REFUNITE, a non-profit tech organization with the mission of reconnecting refugee families across the globe. In their capacity as co-founders and CEOs, the Mikkelsens have built the first-ever family-tracing platform for refugees, capitalizing on the ever-growing mobile phone usage across Africa and working closely with…