Refugees United - connecting families

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Refugees United helps to empower refugees, using our internet search tool, people can themselves directly reconnect with missing loved ones. We are a fully independent, non-political, non-religious NGO.
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At Refugees United we believe in engaging the world around us to commit heart and action to support the cause to reunite separated families.
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What is Refugees United?

We are an organisation that offers a safe, secure and anonymous way to find family and friends that you have lost contact with. This service is FREE of charge.

Using our search tool, you are able to look for missing friends and family, even though you are far from home. At the same time you make it possible for them to find you.

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    Design to Improve Life

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    Quotes

    "The new mobile phone search engine enables refugees to search for their loved ones on any low cost handset, through simple text messages"
    President Bill Clinton
    The Clinton Global Initiative, 2010
    "Allowing for refugees access to state of art technology in order to connect with and reach out to family members they have lost contact with is fundamental"
    António Guterres
    UN High Commissioner for Refugees, 2010
    "Refugees United, The Social Network That's More Important Than Facebook, Goes Mobile"
    Alice Korngold
    Fast Company Expert Blogger, Thu Sep 23, 2010
    "In a pioneering way the innovators of Refugees United have used modern technology to alleviate the terrible pain that separation from and uncertainty about family members bring"
    Morten Kjærum
    Director of Fundamental Rights Agency
    "We must strive to ensure that the technological revolution already benefitting so many also embraces those that may have been excluded and are less fortunate. Refugees United accomplishes this objective"
    José María Figueres
    President of Costa Rica and former CEO of World Economic Forum