RefugePoint partners with refugees to access life-changing solutions and transforms how the world supports them.

Founded in Kenya in 2005 to fill a gap in refugee response, RefugePoint played a critical role to ensure that the most at-risk refugees could access resettlement and relocate to safety, with the aim of transforming the resettlement system. Since then, RefugePoint has built innovative opportunities in Africa and around the world to advance lasting solutions for refugees.

As of 2023, RefugePoint has directly helped more than 140,000 refugees relocate to safety, supported more than 4,300 refugees in Nairobi, Kenya to achieve self-reliance, and assisted partner organizations to reach more than 250,000 refugees globally through the Refugee Self-Reliance Initiative.

RefugePoint also helps to match qualified refugees in Kenya with employers in Canada and then supports them throughout the long, challenging process to allow them and their families to immigrate to their new home. We are one of the founding members of the Global Task Force on Labor Mobility, where we advocate that labor mobility pathways should be refugee-centered and should be guided by the lived experience of individuals who have participated in these pathways. With RefugePoint’s assistance, over 100 refugees in Kenya have secured jobs in Canada through our labor mobility program. They – and their families – are in various stages of the immigration process. This project is funded in part by the Government of Canada.