RefugePoint

RefugePoint is a non-profit organization that has worked to provide lasting solutions to the world's most at-risk refugees since 2005. Between 2005-2015, RefugePoint referred over 30,000 refugees for resettlement.

RefugePoint works to identify and protect refugees who have fallen through the cracks of humanitarian assistance, with an emphasis on serving women, children, and urban refugees. RefugePoint is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States, and Nairobi, Kenya.

The organization has worked primarily in over 20 countries, and over 48 locations across Africa, including: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Chad, Cote d'Ivoire, DRC, Egypt, Ethiopia, Kenya, Liberia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe. RefugePoint is a member of Refugee Council USA, a coalition of U.S. non-governmental organizations focused on refugee protection.

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.

RefugePoint continues to evolve and serve the needs of refugees both from its office in Cambridge, Massachusetts and from its office located in Nairobi, Kenya.

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.”

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