Lost Boy Meets Survivors of current Global Refugee Crisis This year we set out to better understand the global refugee crisis through refugee eyes, to see what’s happening firsthand. So over the past few months, ARC teams went and spoke with more than 500 people – all of them refugees - in places like Jordan, Turkey, Germany, Greece, Uganda, and Kenya. Welcomed into their homes and their lives, we listened to everything they had to say. ARC staff went on this journey, but we also invited others outside the industry, people whose could offer a distinct perspective. One of those people was David Acuoth, who we were lucky to have on our team in Jordan. David is a former Lost Boy of Sudan who is now a U.S. Congressional Staffer. Below you’ll find a recent conversation between David and Daniel Wordsworth, ARC’s President, about his experiences speaking with Syrian refugees in Jordan – and why it was so powerful. Q&A: DAVID ACUOTH Daniel: To start, why were you interested in going on … [Read more...] about Q&A: David Acuoth
Archives for September 2016
Asili Zone 3 About to Launch
It’s official – construction on Zone 3 is well underway. Located in the bustling town of Mudaka, about a half hour from Bukavu, Zone 3 will be Asili’s most ambitious project yet. Our work in Mudaka will have the building blocks of Asili’s business model, but this newest zone will work as a comparison test of sorts to the first two, which are in rural and semi-rural locations. … [Read more...] about Asili Zone 3 About to Launch
Partnering With Dunn Brothers
Making change worldwide American Refugee Committee is partnering again with Dunn Brothers Coffee, the Minneapolis-based coffee franchise, to offer the Changemakers Collection coffee bean in 87 Dunn Brothers stores in nine U.S. states. Sales from the collection will benefit ARC’s relief programs around the world. Starting in mid-September, Dunn Brothers Coffee will offer a Ugandan coffee bean for purchase as well as brew this light roast coffee in stores, available as a coffee-of-the-day. The Ugandan bean is the second in the Changemakers Collection. The first, a Burundi microlot coffee bean, was available in stores in February and March of this year. Through proceeds of the Changemakers Collection, Dunn Brothers will contribute $10,000 to ARC in 2016 to help fund breakthrough humanitarian solutions for the 3 million people ARC serves around the world. ARC provides clean water, protection and community services to more than 200,000 people in refugee settlements and … [Read more...] about Partnering With Dunn Brothers