Refugee Camps

A Real Gift to Mothers: Join the Fight Against Malaria

Elizabeth Gore | Posted 05.14.2012

Read More: Refugee Camps, Kakuma-Refugee-Camp, Nothing but Nets, Global Motherhood, Mother's Day 2012, Mother's Day, United Nations Foundation, South Sudan, Impact News

The Kakuma refugee camp is mostly women and children, resilient mothers who grabbed their little ones and braved a dangerous journey to escape conflict. Thanks to UNHCR, they are safe from violence; now, their enemy is a mosquito.

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Afghan Elders Describe Cruelest Winter in Charahi Qambar Camp

Salena Tramel | Posted 05.06.2012

Read More: Refugee Camps, Charahi Qambar, Afghanistan, Global Exchange, Idps, Refugees, Afghanistan War, Afghanistan Refugee Camps, World News

For the residents of the Charahi Qambar refugee camp, it's been a long five years since they fled the U.S.-led destruction of their villages and put up tents in this destitute Kabul neighborhood. But over the winter, it was not bombs but snowfalls that crushed shelters and threatened lives.

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Schools and Solutions in Sudan

Luol Deng | Posted 08.20.2011

Read More: Refugee Camps, World Refugee Day, Darfur Sudan, Sudan, Refugees, South Sudan, Video, Impact News

As we pause to recognize the millions of refugees around the world today on World Refugee Day, we also want to point out that all is not gloom and doom. There are ways we all can get involved to make a difference in the lives of those forcibly uprooted from their homes in Sudan.

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Refugee Programs Struggle Without Funding Increase

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Refugee Camps, Refugee, Refugees, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- The Senate's decision last week to fund the government through a continuing resolution instead of an omnibus appropriations bill could h...

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Surviving in Haiti

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Refugees, Haiti Earthquake, Housing, Refugee Camps, Haiti Reconstruction, Haiti, Haiti Aid, New Orleans, United Nations, Hurricane Katrina, Statistics, World News

The suffering of the people of Haiti is as unimaginable as the poor planning or sheer neglect of their government, the United Nations, and large international non-governmental organizations.

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Is There a Better Refugee Camp Design?

Jacqueline Novogratz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Refugee Camps, Pakistan Camps, Pakistan Aid, Pakistan Refugee Camps, Pakistan, Pakistan Flood, Impact News

We arrive at a community of 100 tents situated in a circle. I'm prepared for the kinds of camps we've seen previously: hundreds of tarpaulins lined side by side. This community, in contrast, has been created on a human scale.

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"Part of the Dream for National Reconstruction": Haitian Refugee Camps Model Future Society

Beverly Bell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Democracy, Help Haiti, Women, Refugee Camps, Haiti Earthquake, Haiti, Haiti Aid, World News

While it should never be the case that a high percentage of the Haitian population remains living in refugee camps seven months after the earthquake, ...

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Haitian Leadership Mentoring Program for Orphans Growing in Leogane

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: N.Y.U. Polytechnic Institute, Raising Global Citizens, Project Leogane, Leogane, Child Sponsorship, Orphan Care, End Orphanages Globally, Connectivity, Haitian Students, College Prep Leadership Training Program, NYU Polytec, Japan, Haiti, Leadership Mentoring, France, Oiww, Hurricane Jeanne, Internet, Israel, U.S.A., Scholarships, Gonaives, Orphans International Worldwide, Refugee Camps, Mentoring Children, Ecole De La Redemption, OIWW Family Care, January 12, World News

There is no reason for Haiti to be a hell hole. It has abundant and beautiful natural resources, an incredible and indomitable people, and is only tw...

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Rebecca et Alea

Crossover Dreams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Refugee Camps, Childrens Health, Haiti Earthquake, Port-Au-Prince Earthquake, IDP Camps, Haiti, World News

Peter Costantini ~ Pétionville, Haiti Next to where we were building a new platform for a hospital tent in the Pétionville Club camp for ...

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Three Schoolgirls In Palestinian Refugee Camp Invent Stick-tech, Revolutionary Cane To Help The Blind

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Refugee Camps, Palestine, Blind, Askar Refugee Camp, Blindness, Palestinian Refugees, Intel International Science Fair, Stick-Tech, Stick-Tech Blind, Video, Impact News

After six months of diligent testing, three schoolgirls in a Palestinian refugee camp have developed a revolutionary walking cane that could help the ...

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Rape In Haiti: Women, Girls Detail Violent Attacks In Aftermath Of Haiti Earthquake

AP | MICHELLE FAUL | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Refugee Camps, Sexual Violence, Women's Rights, Haiti Police, Human Rights, Rape, Ban Ki-Moon, Camps, Human Rights Watch, Jean Bertrand Aristide, Haiti Earthquake, #Haitiearthquake, Port-Au-Prince, Un, World News

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — When the young woman needed to use the toilet, she went out into the darkened tent camp and was attacked by three men. ...

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'The Ice Road': My Life In A Siberian Labor Camp

Dr. Stefan Waydenfeld | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Communism, Nazis, Refugee Camps, Labor Camps, Poland, Siberia, Books, The Ice Road, World War II, Soviet Union, Stalin, Books News

My life was hard labor in a Siberian logging camp, working all year round, maintaining an ice road for the transport of timber in subzero temperatures.

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Place Saint Pierre

Crossover Dreams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Refugee Camps, Earthquake, Internally-Displaced-People, Camps, Haiti, Pétionville, World News

By Peter Costantini ~ Pétionville, Haiti Rain was general all over Port-au-Prince. It was falling last night, and the night before, and the nig...

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Israel's Gaza Blockade Criticized By UN Humanitarian Chief

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestine, Gaza Blockade, Gaza, Palestinians, Weapons, Gaza City, Refugee Camps, Palin Gop @Y:US-News, Gaza Strip, Peace Talks, Trade, Egypt, Gaza Border, Food, Tunnels, Humanitarian Aid, John Holmes, Un, Israel, Medicine, World News

UNITED NATIONS — The U.N. humanitarian chief says Israel's blockade of Gaza is not helping its security or weakening Hamas' hold on the territor...

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Don't Overlook People With Disabilities in Haiti

Dale Buscher | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Refugee Camps, Displaced People, Disabilities, Amputees, Humanitarian Aid, International Aid, Refugees, Haiti, Handicap, World News

The emergency response and reconstruction efforts in Haiti are opportunities to amend past neglect and discrimination, and assist persons with disabilities to live richer, more dignified lives.

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Renewable Energy Expert Steve Smith Mitigates Conflicts in Congo, Rwanda, Sudan

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Renewable Energy, Peace Corp, Somalia, Darfur, United Nations, Refugees International, Twa, Thought Leaders, Thomas Pakenham, Madeline Albright, Hutu-Tutsi Genocide, Bureau of Crisis Prevention and Recovery, Wikipedia, Global Citizens, Congo, Laurent-Desire Kabila, Human Rights Monitors, Women in Transition, Belgian Colonies, Tutsis, Democratic Republic of the Congo, National Peace Corp Association, Chic Dambach, Zaire, Ohio, Mobutu Sese Seko, Conflicts Resolution, Tanzania, French Language, Swahili, Uganda, Bill Clinton, Steve Smith, Chevron, Roman Catholic Church, The Scramble for Africa, Kinshasa, USAID Office of Transition Initiatives, Burundi, Hutus, Steven Smith, New York City, U.N. Development Program, Refugee Camps, Geneva, Eastern Congo, Genocide, Jimmy Carter, Sudan, Hillary Clinton, Operation Support Hope, Fortune 500 Companies, Usaid, Hotel Rwanda, Rwanda, Léopoldville, Kinyarwanda, World News

Multi-tasking is de rigueur these days, so it comes as no surprise that renewable energy expert and conflict resolution specialist Steve Smith has his hands full. His specialty comes from years of practice.

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Palestinian Officials Criticize US over Israeli Settlements

Washington Post | Howard Schneider | Posted 05.25.2011

JERUSALEM -- Palestinian officials on Sunday criticized the United States for what one called "back-pedaling" on demands that Israel stop settlement c...

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The Story of CAN-DO: Enough Is Enough

Eric Klein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Refugee Camps, Relief, Disaster Relief, Tsunami, Volunteering, Sri Lanka, Nonprofits, Southeast Asia, Aid, Rebuilding, Donations, Fundraising, Accountability, Can-Do, Impact News

CAN-DO was born out of my own frustration with the system and the critical need I saw to hold charitable organizations accountable for hard-earned donations and to the communities they serve.

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Traveling as Press vs. NGO Head: Same Adventure

Jim Luce | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Europe, Lome, United Nations Department of Public Information, Hong Kong, Guatemala City, Sri Lanka, Galle, Air France, South America, Asia, Ngo, Guyana, Chennai, Dallas, Paris, Singapore, Peru, Indonesia, Port-Au-Prince, Tokyo, Amsterdam, Miami, Dominican Republic, Aceh, Dubai, Swine Flu, Mexico City, Journalist, Africa, Ghana, San Salvador, Central America, International Development, Santo Domingo, Mexico, Colombia, New York, Haiti, Refugee Camps, Frankfurt, Jakarta, Tamil, Tsunami, Hurricane Jeanne, Togo, Post 9/11, India, Orphans International Worldwide, Huffington Post, JFK Airport, Bangalore, Gonaives, Bucharest, Media News

I have flown from Haiti to Peru to Guyana in the Americas, Hong Kong to Indonesia to Sri Lanka in Asia, and Togo to Ghana in Africa.

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Refugee Chess

Freddy Deknatel | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Iraqi Refugees, Iraq Surge, Damascus, Chess, Wunderkammer Magazine, Iraqi Refugee Crisis, Iraq War, Iraqi Food, War Refugees, Refugee-Camps, Baghdad, Iraq War Refugees, Iraq, Syria, Refugees, Iraqi Refugees in Syria, Healthy Living News

In Baghdad, their eldest daughter had two cars. Six years later, the Iraqi couple moves their mattresses out of the bedroom each night to sleep on the living room floor.

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Strong Hearts

Cheryl Saban Ph.D. | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Refugee Camps, Liberia, Child Activists, Christmas Giving., Holiday Gifts, Style News

I can't think of a more loving holiday gift than Lovetta Conto's necklaces. She is selling these necklaces to raise money to help other refugees and displaced kids.

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