Sites dedicated to refugees and their lives

http://www.theirc.org/

The International Rescue Committee responds to the world’s worst humanitarian crises and helps people to survive and rebuild their lives. Founded in 1933 at the request of Albert Einstein, the IRC offers lifesaving care and life-changing assistance to refugees forced to flee from war or disaster.
At work today in over 40 countries and in 22 U.S. cities, the IRC restores safety, dignity and hope to millions who are uprooted and struggling to endure. The IRC leads the way from harm to home.

http://www.arcrelief.org/site/PageServer

The American Refugee Committee is an international nonprofit, nonsectarian organization that has provided humanitarian assistance and training to millions of beneficiaries over the last 30 years. ARC works with refugee communities in 7 countries around the world, helping people regain control of their lives.
The people ARC serves have lost everything to events completely beyond their control. ARC provides shelter, clean water and sanitation, health care, skills training, microcredit education, protection and whatever support we can to let people begin again.

http://sites.google.com/site/refugeeimmigrantconference/


The Washington Refugee and Immigrant Conference is a community-organized gathering of refugees and immigrants, service providers, policy makers, advocates, academics, other interested community members.
The 2009 Conference's theme was "Changing Times, Changing Strategies." We asked ourselves, "What new strategies can we (as refugees and immigrants, and those that support them) use to bring about positive social, political and economic change for refugees and immigrants?"

We envision a community where all refugees and immigrants are self-reliant and empowered to lead and contribute to their communities.


http://www.unhcr.org/cgi-bin/texis/vtx/home

A UNHCR-funded shelter for teenage refugee boys on their own allows them to recover, build their own community in Indonesia.

Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees was established on December 14, 1950 by the United Nations General Assembly. The agency is mandated to lead and co-ordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees. It strives to ensure that everyone can exercise the right to seek asylum and find safe refuge in another State, with the option to return home voluntarily, integrate locally or to resettle in a third country. It also has a mandate to help stateless people.
In more than five decades, the agency has helped tens of millions of people restart their lives. Today, a staff of some 6,600 people in more than 110 countries continues to help about 34 million persons.


http://www.myimmigrationstory.com/

THE STORIES OF U.S. IMMIGRANTS IN THEIR OWN WORDS:

I came to the United States at the age of 4 years old. My parents wanted to give my sister and I a better future (she’s also in the same situation).

My sister and I were always excellent students. We both got married to service members.
Her husband is in the Navy and I am married to a US Army soldier. Just because we married them does not mean we get an easy way. No I still have to go to Juarez. It scares me to think that I have to go back to Mexico, especially because I have a son.
He is only 1 year old and not to mention my husband is deploying next year and I do not want to be away from him any longer. A week ago I finally decided to go to Juarez and if I come over to the US again I will be happy. If not, I will be disappointed because my husband needs me.
I am his rock, I am his support to release all the anguish he has to go through on a daily basis with soldiers.
Rachel
San Diego

By Nance Satiro
Tânia Batista