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RFS Featured Nationally on CNN

On Saturday, January 7, CNN aired a story featuring Refugee Family Services! Reporter Julie Peterson introduced viewers to Mubonge Twachoka and his family, who fled the Democratic Republic of the Congo and lived in Tanzanian refugee camps before settling in metro Atlanta in 2010. Click here to see the report and leave your comments on the CNN website.

The Burundi Women’s Farm Hits the News

RFS is pleased to see the growth and success of the Global Growers Network. Check out the latest story on the refugee community transitioning through farming, recently featured on WSB-TV Atlanta. See the exciting segment here.

The Champion Features Refugee Resettlement

Dekalb County agencies receive new funding to aid refugee resettlement. Click here to read the story.



RFS Restores Women’s Employment Assistance
The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta, Inc. recently selected Refugee Family Services to receive a $20,000 Carefree Fund grant to support the Women’s Job Skills and Placement Program. “This is a really needed program,” says Women’s Program Director Nermina Silnovic, “All of our services are important but without employment, everything in a refugee’s life is put on the back burner just trying to make it month to month.” Read on...


Dartmouth Fellow Credits RFS for “Community Values”
Saudo Sheikh-Hassan first arrived in the US in 1996 as a seven-year-old refugee from Ifo, a Somali refugee camp in Kenya. “I spent most of my childhood there [Refugee Family Services],” says Saudo, now 22-years-old, a RFS Young Women’s Leadership fellow, and a student at Dartmouth University. “It felt like home, not an afterschool service.” Read on...


Mark your calendars!
Taste the World 2012
Mark your calendars for the RFS’ gala celebration, Taste the World! Please join Refugee Family Services for Taste the World 2012, on April 14, as we celebrate the rich cultural diversity of this remarkable community with a gala evening of international cuisine, dynamic entertainment, and silent and live auctions. Click here for more information...