Often overlooked, refugee camps are also vibrant spaces characterized by entrepreneurship, innovation, and lively market activity. This chapter examines how refugee entrepreneurs build businesses despite social, normative, and legal constraints of the refugee camp. I introduce three types of institutional ...
They're working in the refugee camps, with chickens and selling the eggs for a little amount of money, or just using them to feed their families, and feeling a sense of pride and empowerment, because they're no longer helpless and depending on others with their vegetables and their...
so that they can gather to help each other. In HIV centers, in refugee camps, but also to stop online bullying and early child marriage. We need ideas, we need ideas that are big and small, ideas that are local and global. This, in the end, is our responsibility. A massive generatio...
Deadly outbreaks have plagued societies for centuries. But they can lead to medical breakthroughs—if we learn the right lessons from them.
so that they can gather to help each other.?In HIV centers, in refugee camps,?but also to stop online bullying and early child marriage.? 13:13 We need ideas, we need ideas that are big and small,?ideas that are local and global.?This, in the end, is our responsibility.?A ...
Working alongside the Alsama Project, an NGO serving roughly 600 students across three refugee camps, our colleagues taught math, English, and Arabic at education centers, coached cricket at sports hubs, and supported an embroidery studio that created regular income for refugee families. Working ...
Green Berets helped thousands make it to refugee camps and helped support the operation of those camps as well. During the Nicaraguan civil war in the 1980s, the Green Berets guarded the borders the Central American nation shared with Honduras and El Salvador. They were successful in keeping ...
"Instead of missing school to roam around wasting time, I have shown them that education is the key to a better life.”– LarissaPositive results are being seen on a broader scale throughout the Nduta and Nyarugusu camps, where 11 Girls’ Clubs are active. The project...
Refugee camps are places around the world where people who were forced out of their go and stay temporarily. The camps are not a nice resort or a place to have fun, they have worn down tents for people to stay and very low sanitation. In the book Other Side of the Sky Farah the mai...
I have lived as a poor in the rich world, but entitled rich world expat in many places including refugee camps in Thailand that are now housing their 5th generation of refugees fleeing for safety from conflicts on all of Thailand borders, to hospitals in Somalia, and ...