African Refugee Development Center: A Personal Statement

Refuge means shelter, “so a refugee is a person that seeks shelter, usually from war, natural disaster, or some other harmful situation.”("Refugee - Dictionary Definition.") Merriam Webster classifies ‘other’ as “different or separate from the person or thing that has already been mentioned.” (Merriam-Webster. Merriam-Webster) Therefore the word ‘othering’ is going to be similar, “the process of perceiving or portraying someone or something as fundamentally different or alien.” ("Wordnik.") The big question is how big of a deal can scarcity come to?

I am writing to express my interest in obtaining the Summer Intern position with LSAC Diversity Initiatives. Currently, I am a full-time 2L attending Drexel University, Thomas Kline School of Law. I am currently in my third year of a joint degree program with Rutgers University and Drexel, where I will obtain my Masters in City and Regional Planning and Juris Doctor by May 2018. I have a high interest in family, particularly children advocacy, civil rights, and criminal law. I have represented the sort of determination, direction, and diligence that I feel not only effects positive change but also evokes this change with a rich understanding that collective harmony is key to changing the culture of

I am interested in the programs and events internship position for the Volunteer Center of Lubbock. The position requires you to organize workshops, youth events, and even a golf tournament to promote volunteering in the area. I connect with this organization because I feel very strongly about volunteering, I think that everyone should donate their time to help others when they can.

“Doesn’t the world see the suffering of the millions of refugees of Palestinians who have been living in exile around the world or in refugee camps for the past 60 years? No state, no home, no identity, no right to work. Doesn’t the world see this injustice?” (Ismail Haniyeh). This is how many of the universal refugees feel. There are millions of refugees all over the world in similar situations. This is also similar to how Ha feels in the book “Inside Out and Back Again.” Ha’s life mirrors the universal refugee experience because many lives are turned inside out, they have to get used to their new living arrangements, and they have to adapt to a new world.

This essay is about the universal refugee experience and the hardships that they have to go through on their journey. Ha from Inside Out and Back Again and other refugees from the article “Children of War” all struggle with the unsettling feeling of being inside out because they no longer own the things that mean the most to them. Ha and the other refugees all encounter similar curiosities of overcoming the finding of that back again peaceful consciousness in the “new world” that they are living in .

These interests and my detail-oriented organizational skills, determination and compassion have instilled within me the goal of a goal career in facilitating international humanitarian aid. My recent involvement with tutoring refugees in Elizabeth, New Jersey has really opened my eyes to the many problems people face daily and given me social consciousness

After learning about the Somali refugee settlement in Minnesota, I believe one challenge human service professionals may face is getting the Somali people acclimated to life in the U.S., especially getting the children enrolled in school. The Somalis Minnesota story tracks to 1991, when civil war broke out in Somalia. Millions fled to refugee camps, many in Kenya. Two years later, the first wave of Somali refugees were sent to Minnesota (DeRusha, 2011). With the time that these families were in refugee camps in Kenya, it is highly unlikely that education was pursued at this time. Our education system in the U.S. is based upon age. A child’s age determines what grade they go into. Well, the Somali children may be old enough for a certain

With increasing interest in serving refugees, I sought the help of Ben Lyons, a Groton alumnus, to help me find a fitting internship for the subsequent summer. Ben helped me find an internship with an organization that provided free legal assistance to refugees and asylum seekers in Istanbul, Turkey. This was in the summer of 2015 and the refugee crisis had just unraveled; Turkey, at the time,

The transition from childhood to adolescence presents challenges for all youth. However, it is even more challenging for newcomer youth who must integrate into mainstream America. The Refugee Women’s Alliance designed a variety of programs to assist newcomer youths with their process of integration and support youth ongoing self-exploration and transformation. I am one of the few volunteers at the Refugee Women’s Alliance (ReWA), a nonprofit organization that provides resources and services to assist refugee and immigrants’ women and their families. ReWA’s primary goals are to improve employability, promote acculturation, increase language proficiency, and most important of all, creating a safe and family-oriented environment for

Refugee Outreach of Kalamazoo is one of the most active organizations on Western Michigan University campus as well as outside the Kalamazoo area. I thought about joining an organization since my arrival to Western michigan University, because I wanted to help the community through voluntary work around the area and I was able to find something that I was interested during the bronco bash event on campus. I attended their first meeting of the Fall and I was impressed by the ideas of the members of the organization, I also noticed that they have members who went to study abroad in Europe and they help refugees who are in refugee camps in Greece and we had the opportunity to talk to them through skype. I went home and decided to become an active

The start of the Atlantic National refugee is the start of all the findings in the areas of mountains and where the animals of the towns come into the picture and play a huge role in their culture. The villagers become a huge part in the agriculture and where it falls in their background. Carter deftly employs personal anecdote, statistics/data, and word choice to sway his readers.

I am extremely interested in the internship at FAIR Girls, due to its mission of aiding young women to live productive and amazing lives. As well as, since International Social Work is what I hope to specialize in. However, I do not have any experience working with survivors of trauma and trafficking. Given my dedication to learning, my work ethic and my educational knowledge of social work, though, I believe I’d make a strong candidate for your consideration in this internship.

Prior to joining the Women’s Refugee Commission, Emma worked for international NGOs in the disability field. She has also worked as a consultant, providing technical support to mainstream humanitarian actors on disability inclusion. The Women’s Refugee Commission recruited her to work as a consultant on the project they partnered up with the UNHCR. While working for the WRC, she leads the WRC’s disability projects, which advocate for the right and full inclusion of refugees and displaced persons with disabilities into GBV programming in humanitarian settings.

Most of the refugees in our focus group also recounted their difficulties with finding housing in the city. Shelters in Toronto are usually full and even if one was lucky enough to be accommodated at a shelter, they could only stay for the night. Shelters force these vulnerable people to stay outside the entire day and only come back around nine o’clock at night. One of the refugees from Namibia described shelters to have horrible living conditions because they were given bad food and often had unhygienic washrooms. Even during the winter time, shelters will still push residents out despite freezing temperatures and lack of adequate winter gear. During their first winter in Canada, the Namibian refugee was driven out of the shelter they resided in during extremely freezing temperatures without proper clothing to protect them from the cold that they wanted to cut their leg off because of frost bite. She was still not allowed to come come back inside the shelter. She compared living conditions in shelters with family residences, saying that the family residences she has been to resembled apartments with a homey atmosphere. They were given food, money for food, had a playground and a school around the corner. However, another refugee in the focus group objected to this claim and said that to them, both shelters and family residences both do not offer the best living conditions for vulnerable people like them.

I have chosen to investigate whether immigrants should interact with host peoples or establish marginal communities away from the culture of their destination. Egypt is grappling with these troubles today. The movement of Sudanese refugees to Egypt can be dated to the 19th century, when Sudan was part of Egypt, under British colonial rule. Up until the late nineteen-eighties, most of the early Sudanese who moved to Egypt were northerners and were able to take advantage of bilateral treaties between the two countries, giving Sudanese many of the same rights as Egyptian nationals. However, after the failed assassination attempt that targeted President Mubarak, in which Islamists allegedly backed by the Sudanese government were implicated, the Egyptian government revoked all treaties that gave special privileges to Sudanese in Egypt. Since then, the Sudanese in Egypt were subjected to the laws governing the status and rights of foreigners. Tensions between the Sudanese and Egyptians are rising at an incredible rate. The migrants need to avoid frequent interaction with host peoples and instead establish marginal communities to maintain civil rights, be able to have free education, lead healthy lives, practice their own religion, be safe, and attain employment.