The Refugee Archive

The Refugee Archive focuses on displaced single mothers and female-headed households living in active conflict and displacement.

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The Refugee Archive
is a nonprofit dedicated to documenting the voices of #FemaleHeadedHouseholds among refugees and displaced communities. Through oral histories, research, and programs, we capture the daily lives, resilience, and wisdom of those living in displacement.

Watch our About Us video to see how these stories inform policy, guide humanitarian action, and amplify voices that are often unheard

#RefugeeVoices #Displaced #RefugeeStories

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Today is Daf Day. Put Your Daf to Work.

Your DAF can help preserve the oral histories of displaced single mothers and turn them into research that can inform better humanitarian policies, services, and programming.

https://t.co/3anwPkeF6A

#DAFDay #TheRefugeeArchive

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DAF Day Is Tomorrow. Back the Artists.

Artists can turn displaced single mothers’ stories into work people can see, understand, and remember.

Tomorrow, use your DAF to help keep that work moving:
https://t.co/3anwPkeF6A
#DAFDay #ArtOfOralHistory #TheRefugeeArchive

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DAF Day is tomorrow.

Millions are displaced. But how many of their experiences shape humanitarian decisions?

This October 8, use your DAF to help preserve the oral histories of displaced single mothers.

https://t.co/3anwPkeF6A

#DAFDay #TheRefugeeArchive @dafdayofficial

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2 Days Until Daf Day.

Money set aside to do good cannot preserve a single story until it's put to use.

Your DAF grant can help The Refugee Archive document the lives of displaced single mothers.

Make your grant count:
https://t.co/eFG77IsDuB

#DAFDay #TheRefugeeArchive @dafdayofficial

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October 8 is @dafdayofficial. Funds Set Aside to Help Others Can Make a Difference Now.

21 displaced single mothers in Goma are waiting to have their histories documented. Make The Refugee Archive part of your giving.

https://t.co/3anwPkeF6A

#DAFDay #TheRefugeeArchive

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Women Are Holding Families Together While Support Still Falls Short

Across Africa, displaced women are raising families while access to education and decent work remains uneven.

On September 7, Dr. Gloria Nguya and Dr. Josephine Wanjirū Gìtome join David Oletu to discuss what female-headed households are actually facing.

Drop your question in the comments.

#FemaleHeadedHouseholds #Africa #ForcedDisplacement

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These 21 Women Are Living Through War Right Now

Twenty-one displaced single mothers in Goma are raising children during active conflict. If their experiences are never recorded, the world may remember only the numbers.

We have until September 20 to reach $25,000. Any amount helps preserve these oral histories while they can still be told firsthand.

Donate:
https://t.co/Jsq2v4JW2H
#Goma #DRC #OralHistory

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A Life Can Disappear From History If No One Asks

Twenty-one displaced single mothers in Goma are living through active conflict. Their experiences should not disappear simply because no one recorded them.

Every donation helps us preserve these stories in their own words.

Donate:
https://t.co/udew201DPO

#Goma #DRC #OralHistory

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21 Displaced Single Mothers in Goma Need Support

Conflict has disrupted their homes, livelihoods, and daily lives. Now 21 women are ready to preserve their full oral histories in their own words so their experiences do not disappear with the news cycle.

We need $25,000 by September 4 to cover the real cost of ethical documentation, from childcare and transport to interpretation, transcription, and permanent archival.

Donate or share:
https://t.co/bvDiJkaM9S

#DRC #Goma #OralHistory #TheRefugeeArchive

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Displaced Women Are Being Targeted Right Now

Traffickers exploit unsafe routes, lost income, weak legal protection, and family separation. Women leading households face the danger with fewer ways to escape.

Follow and support our work:
https://t.co/CyJgn4lWoP

#EndHumanTrafficking

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Protection on Paper is Not Enough

Seventy-five years after the Refugee Convention, the central question is whether displaced people can actually access the rights it established.

Female-headed households still face barriers across asylum, legal status, safety, and livelihoods. A protection system that works only in law is not fulfilling its purpose.

Help us collect and preserve displaced mothers’ oral histories: https://t.co/8KUMIlgzfB

#RefugeeConvention #RefugeeRights #FemaleHeadedHouseholds #Displacement #HumanRights #HumanitarianResponse

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Children Pushed Into Work as Safety Nets Collapse

Child labour grows where school access, household income, protection, and care break at once. It is not just work; it is childhood time being taken by survival.

Our work centers the voices of displaced mothers, where this pressure is recorded through household instability, lost learning, and children forced too soon into adult responsibility.

Listen to the voices of displaced mothers: https://t.co/cdkIzSXMGm

#ChildLabour #ChildProtection #Displacement #OralHistory

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The Stories Missing From Research Are Often the Ones We Need Most

Displacement is studied in reports, but the people living it are often remembered only through numbers. Oral history changes that by treating memory, voice, and lived experience as knowledge.

At De La Salle University Manila, our team shared why preserving the stories of women and female-headed households matters for how future researchers understand crisis.

Help us collect, translate, digitize, and preserve more oral histories:https://t.co/8KUMIlgzfB

Listen: https://t.co/X9CFZYp0jt

#OralHistory #Displacement #HumanitarianResponse #WomenInResearch #DeLaSalleUniversity #TheArchiveSpeaks

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Eid al-Adha Observed as Displacement Reshapes Family Life

Eid al-Adha marks sacrifice, provision, and shared responsibility. In displacement, those values often move from public celebration into private survival.

A displaced single mother may carry the day through one careful meal, one long-distance call, and one child reminded that dignity has not been lost.

Listen to the voices of displaced single mothers:
https://t.co/lVpopdzHRE
Share to keep these stories visible.

#EidAlAdha #Displacement #Motherhood #RefugeeStories

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Millions of Women Are Displaced While Their Stories Stay Unrecorded

Across today’s migration debates, refugee women are often measured in numbers, but their knowledge rarely shapes the record. Their stories reveal how displacement reshapes leadership, care, work, and survival.

Our partnership with ARWNET supports oral history training and ethical documentation across Africa, helping female-headed households be heard in their own voices.

Listen to the voices of female-headed households: https://t.co/lVpopdAfHc

#RefugeeWomen #OralHistory #Migration #HumanRights

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Transparency Earned, Trust Made Visible

Candid’s Platinum Transparency Badge reflects clear reporting, accountability, and openness in how nonprofit work is documented and shared.

For mission-driven work, trust is not a side note. It is part of the responsibility, especially when preserving stories shaped by displacement, motherhood, and women-led households.

Support this work: https://t.co/8KUMIlgzfB

#TheRefugeeArchive #Transparency #NonprofitTrust #HumanRights

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Eastern DRC is Becoming the War the World Cannot Afford to Ignore

As global attention shifts between wars, trade routes, and regional power struggles, eastern DRC remains one of the world’s most urgent pressure points.

Behind the fighting are families pushed from home, mothers rebuilding safety from nothing, and stories that deserve more than a passing headline.

Listen to the voices of female-headed households:
https://t.co/lVpopdAfHc

#DRC #Congo #HumanRights #GlobalSecurity

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Mother’s Day Arrives as Displacement Reshapes Family Life

Behind every greeting card is a reality rarely counted: mothers holding together memory, care, documents, income decisions, and children’s sense of home while rebuilding after displacement.

As more households are led by women through crisis and migration, their stories are not side notes. They are living records of survival, responsibility, and continuity.

Listen to voices from female-headed households:
https://t.co/lVpopdzHRE

#TheRefugeeArchive #MothersDay #Displacement #OralHistory

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The Crisis at Home After Families Are Forced to Flee

Global displacement does not end when a family crosses a border. It continues in daily choices about safety, food, education, care, and survival.

That is why archiving the voices of displaced single mothers matters. Their stories show how households adapt when women are left to carry responsibility with limited support.

Listen: https://t.co/lVpopdAfHc

#RefugeeStories #HumanRights #Displacement #WomenVoices

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Aid Work is Becoming More Dangerous While Humanitarian Needs Keep Rising

Around the world, humanitarian workers are facing record levels of risk, with 2024 named the deadliest year ever recorded for aid workers and 2025 already showing the same alarming pattern.

Labor Day is a reminder that this work also happens inside displaced families, where mothers and female-headed households carry care, survival, paperwork, memory, and rebuilding all at once.

Listen to the voices of female-headed households: https://t.co/lVpopdAfHc

#TheRefugeeArchive #LaborDay #HumanitarianWork #Displacement