Mapendo International Sasha Chanoff Fellowship Awarded 2007  Photo courtesy of Christophe Calais Mapendo International rescues and protects forgotten and endangered refugees in Africa. The organization devises short and long-term solutions for victims of massacre and terror, targets of genocide, torture and rape survivors, widows, orphans and others at risk, whose struggle to survive would otherwise go unnoticed and unattended. Mapendo runs rescue and health initiatives designed to keep alive those displaced by war and to enable them to rebuild their lives in safety. Before launching Mapendo Sasha consulted with the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Kenya and worked with the International Organization for Migration throughout Africa, identifying refugees in danger, undertaking rescue missions and working on refugee protection issues with the US, Canadian, Australian and other governments. Sasha has appeared on 60 Minutes as well as in other national and international TV, radio and print media outlets, has lectured, presented and given keynote speeches at universities and international refugee conferences and has published extensively on refugee issues. He is a graduate of Wesleyan University and holds a master's degree in humanitarian assistance from the Tufts Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and the Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, a joint degree program run through the Feinstein International Center. He is a 2006 Echoing Green Fellow and serves on the board of the Sudanese Education Fund. Read more about Mapendo International at www.mapendo.org. |
