World Vision Rwanda has handed over startup capital to 234 households in Mugombwa Refugee Camp in Gisagara District, part of a three-year initiative targeting 2,133 refugee and host-community ...

KAKUMA, Kenya — Windswept and remote, set in the cattle-rustling lands of Kenya’s northwest, Kakuma was never meant to be permanently settled. It became one of Africa’s most famous refugee camps by ...

Although María had a university degree in special education and years-worth of experience working in business administration back in her native Venezuela, when she first arrived in Peru, she found ...

UNCTAD, IOM and UNHCR held a joint photo exhibition on 18 November at the Palais des Nations in Geneva showcasing the contributions of migrant and refugee entrepreneurs to the development of their ...

Hao and Lisa Lam met and fell in love in a refugee camp in the Philippines after escaping Vietnam. Based in Seattle, they are franchisors of the Best in Class Education Center, with 30 centers around ...

Meet Omari & Zaina, entrepreneurs who opened a childcare business with support from the IRC. Omari and Zaina are originally from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. While living in a refugee camp, ...

Mohammad Raza Hassani, owner of Raza Auto Sale and Repair, arrived in 2021 from Afghanistan. He received an entrepreneurship grant, which he used to open his shop in south St. Louis. He said he is ...

Khalida Ahmadzai learned to make jalapeno chutney from her own mother. In her native Afghanistan, many varieties of jalapenos grow. They’re small and potent. “Yes, they are very spicy,” the new ...

The global refugee crisis continues to escalate at an alarming rate. There are now over 100 million people forcibly displaced worldwide, according to recent data from the United Nations High ...

1,200 people are receiving seed funding to start businesses as part of an initiative from Mercy Corps and Village Enterprise to tackle extreme poverty in refugee settlements A new program that trains ...

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