For more information on Africa:
For up-to-the-minute news, the BBC is a great resource. You can also listen to the BBC World Service's Focus on Africa for daily news and reports.
All Africa is among the Internet's largest content sites, posting over 1,000 stories daily in English and French and offering a diversity of multi-lingual streaming programming as well as over 900,000 articles in the searchable archive.
For basic information on the 53 countries in Africa, the World Factbook is a good resource.
For more information on refugees:
The Office of Refugee Resettlement provides people in need with critical resources to assist them in becoming integrated members of American society. The ORR is part of the Administration of Children and Families in the US Department of Health and Human Services.
U. S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants advances fair and humane public policy, facilitating and providing direct professional services, and promoting the full participation of migrants in community life.
The UNHCR (the United Nations Refugee Agency) agency is mandated to lead and coordinate international action to protect refugees and resolve refugee problems worldwide. Its primary purpose is to safeguard the rights and well-being of refugees.
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is a critical global network of first responders, humanitarian relief workers, healthcare providers, educators, community leaders, activists, and volunteers. Working together, the IRC provides access to safety, sanctuary, and sustainable change for millions of people whose lives have been shattered by violence and oppression.
The Migration Information Source provides fresh thought, authoritative data from numerous global organizations and governments, and global analysis of international migration and refugee trends.
For more information on CAO partner agencies:
Colorado Refugee Services Program (CRSP) is the state agency responsible for coordinating refugee resettlement and integration. CAO, along with other partner agencies, assists CRSP in its goals to promote refugee self-sufficiency by providing services to African refugees.
The African Community Center (ACC) conducts educational and social service programs that help newcomers resettle in their new communities and acculturate. (Colorado).
Jewish Family Services provides programs for refugees in citizenship, counseling and employment.
Ecumenical Immigration and Refugee Services (ERIS) helps to resettle refugees and asylees who are legally in Colorado (by Church World Service and Episcopal Migration Ministries), by providing them assistance with educational needs, family and social services, medical attention, employment, and cultural orientation.
Lutheran Family Services provides services, support, and encouragement to newcomers as they adjust to life in the United States. Lutheran has programs all along the Front Range.
The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment's Refugee Health Program provides newly arriving refugees with an initial Public Health screening. In addition, a physical assessment is offered at three locally contracted clinics (Denver Health, Lowry, CAHEP).
The Tri-County Health Department (Adams, Arapahoe and Douglas counties) provides many African immigrants and refugee with health services.
Emily Griffith Opportunity School in downtown Denver offers ESL classes for refugees and provides low-cost technical college education.
The Spring Institute for Intercultural Learning is a nonprofit, training and consulting corporation with a focus on language and culture. They offer ESL and Workstyles trainings for newly arrived refugees.
Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition is a statewide membership-based coalition of immigrant, faith, labor, youth and ally organizations founded in 2002 to build a unified statewide voice to defend and advance justice for all immigrants and refugees in Colorado and the United States.
Rights for all People exists to organize with immigrants and their allies to bring immigrant voices and humane policies to the struggle for justice, dignity and human rights for everyone in Colorado.
CAO would like to thank all past, current and future funders as well, especially the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, the Office of Refugee Resettlement and the Colorado Refugee Services Program.
