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Sasha Chanoff - Mapendo

by Social Edge last modified 2007-08-23 09:09
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Sasha Chanoff"There are over 3 million refugees across Africa who have fled their homes due to violent conflict and persecution." That's how Sasha Chanoff, Executive Director of Mapendo International, approached Global X at the Skoll World Forum. A very convincing opener...

And that's how Sasha Chanoff told Global X how he was able to deal with a moral issue during a recent mission in a refugees camp in the Congo: Was he supposed to save a woman and her nine children, even though they were not on the list of refugees he could evacuate? Or could he take the risk of jeopardizing the whole mission by taking them along, thus endangering the wellbeing of hundreds of refugees?

Watch him also as he tells Global X why his organization is named after Rose Mapendo, the refugee who recently won the 'Volvo for Life' Hero Award (see a very moving profile here).


very powerful material

 Posted by Patrick O'Heffernan at 2007-05-29 11:27

I would love to meet Rose. Any woman strong enough to keep newborn twins and her large family toegther an alive in a death camp should be running a global NGO. I hope the twins - now 7 yrs old? - will be able to help insure that no other chldren have to endure the same kind of life.

congaratulations

 Posted by charles gikwerere munyamahoro at 2007-06-09 02:52

I would like to thank Mr Sasha Chanoff for his efforts in helping and rescuing refugees in trubles, I know Rose Mapendo bytheway we are from the same community(Banyamulenge) and i realy thank God for her current situation through Mapendo Organization with its executive director Chanoff. May the Lord bless you.

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