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Angelina Jolie lauds Mapendo's work
Angelina Jolie lauds Mapendo's work at D.C. Ceremony

Mapendo featured on front page of The Boston Globe
Mapendo featured on front page of The Boston Globe

ABC San Diego: Sudanese orphan boys reunite with grandmother
On September 25, 2008, two orphaned boys from Sudan who lost their village and family to Janjaweed

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Looking Back at Thirty Years of the US Refugee Resettlement Program

Victoria Yang

Earlier this year, I joined Mapendo International as the first Director of Development. Soon after, I took a trip to Kenya where I met with some of the refugees Mapendo International is helping. Th

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The greatest Bar Mitzvah Project in the World

Sasha Chanoff

Ben Stern’s Bar Mitzvah project saved a life. He sold donuts and gave the proceeds to Mapendo, raising enough money, $500, for Mapendo to bring one person from danger to safety. Ajak, a Sudanese

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Amazing coincidence in Chicago

Sasha Chanoff

I’m in O’Hare airport on my way to a Mapendo International fundraiser in San Francisco tonight. And I’m about to see Ajak, a Sudanese refugee whom whom we’ve been taking care of in Nairobi

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"Mapendo International has reduced our worries on how to survive as a refugee outside of the camp. I’m lacking ..."

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