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    Community-Led Coronavirus Response in Nakivale Refugee Settlement

    The people we serve have the best ideas for how to solve this... At Alight (formerly American Refugee Committee), community connection is at the heart of what we do. We believe that everyone has a gift to give. That we live in an abundant world, filled with amazing people who want to help. And  that the people in the very communities we serve have the best ideas to change their world for the better.  … [Read more...] about Community-Led Coronavirus Response in Nakivale Refugee Settlement

    It’s In Our Hands

    Stopping the Spread of COVID-19 in 44 Countries and Counting COVID-19 cases have been confirmed in nearly every country in the world. The novel coronavirus has overwhelmed even the world’s best health systems. We wonder: how can such a microscopic virus have such gargantuan might? We remember: our might is stronger still, especially when we act as one. … [Read more...] about It’s In Our Hands

    At the Border

    Seeing people, not politics - and doing the doable for families. Families are struggling on the U.S. - Mexico border. You’ve heard the stories. People are fleeing gang and drug violence at home, and they want nothing more than to build a meaningful life for themselves and their children. Put simply, they want a chance at a future. … [Read more...] about At the Border

    Start With Giving

    One of our guiding values that unite us, that drive how we work and how we interact with the people we serve. This article is the first in a 7-part series on Alight's guiding values originally published by Alight CEO Daniel Wordsworth on Medium. “Being human means having a gift. And it is the giving of this gift that makes both the village and the person whole.” “The gift is to the giver, and comes back most to them — it cannot fail…”– Walt Whitman “Just as the rivers we see are much less numerous than the underground streams, so the idealism that is visible is minor compared to what men and women carry in their hearts, unreleased or scarcely released.” — Albert Schweitzer International humanitarian organizations have lost sight of an essential truth: we exist to give, not to receive. We have lived and worked in places of scarcity for so long that we have started to believe that we cannot give to those in need without ourselves first receiving. Caught in a … [Read more...] about Start With Giving

    A Lab for Nyabiheke

    Transformational, globally relevant change for refugees in Rwanda It all began with Gaetan. Gaetan is young man from Congo, but he’s lived in Nyabiheke Refugee Camp in Rwanda for the past 15 years. Like any young person, Gaetan wants to be connected. But Nyabiheke is frustratingly cut off from the world – the nearest internet café is 15km away, and even that is bare bones, with old computers and spotty wi-fi. … [Read more...] about A Lab for Nyabiheke

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