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RefugePoint is a non-profit organization that "works to fill the critical and unmet needs of people affected by war and conflict who have fallen through the net of humanitarian assistance." RefugePoint is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, and Nairobi, Kenya. The organization has worked primarily in East Africa and is now expanding its work to include other parts of Sub-Saharan Africa. RefugePoint is a member of Refugee Council USA, a coalition of U.S. non-governmental organizations focused on refugee protection.〔(Refugee Council USA - Home )〕 == History == RefugePoint was founded in 2005 by Sasha Chanoff and Dr. John Wagacha Burton. While conducting refugee rescue operations with the International Organization for Migration (IOM), Sasha became aware of the unseen and therefore unmet needs of the many refugees living in urban settings. Since its inception, RefugePoint has engaged in a strategic partnership with the Institute for Global Leadership at Tufts University, building off of their common goal to engage others in critical thinking about all sides on an issue.〔http://www.mapendo.org/TuftsInstitute〕 RefugePoint continues to evolve and serve the needs of refugees both from its office in Cambridge, Massachusetts and from its clinic located in Nairobi, Kenya.〔http://www.mapendo.org/whatwedo〕 On June 29, 2011 Mapendo announced that it changed its name to RefugePoint, "in order to better reflect its core mission of protecting the world’s most vulnerable and forgotten refugees." Sasha Chanoff, RefugePoint’s executive director, explained that the organization’s staff have been impressed for years by the many refugees who relate that contact with RefugePoint became the turning point in their lives. “Our effort,” he says, “is to provide lasting solutions for people fleeing from persecution, war, and genocide. The new name, RefugePoint, reflects the moment when those most at risk see the possibility of deliverance from lives of fear and desperation and a path opening up toward new lives for themselves and their families.”〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.refugepoint.org/news/ )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「RefugePoint」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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