RefuSHE

Meet Linet Yar, a refugee who fled civil war in her home country of South Sudan 🇸🇸 in search of a better life in Nairobi. Linet enrolled in RefuSHE’s Fashion & Design 🧵👗 program and is now starting her career in Nairobi’s thriving fashion industry.

“Today, I feel proud of how far I’ve come. I’m no longer the girl who was waiting for Life to change. I’m creating my own path. RefuSHE has not only given me skills, but also hope, confidence, and a new beginning.”

1 in 7 people globally lives with a condition. Awareness and access to the right support can make all the difference 💚

Today on campus, we marked with games, open conversations, and practical self-care tips shared by our mental health team. At RefuSHE, community means joy, connection, and showing up for one another in meaningful ways.

Mental health care is not just a program on paper. It is in the everyday moments of listening, supporting, and creating safe spaces for our participants. Moments like these are a reminder of why that matters 🤍

How are you taking care of your mental health this month?

For all inquiries, partnerships, and communication, please use our official contact information provided below. Kindly save the details for future reference.

For all inquiries, partnerships, and communication, please use our official contact information provided below. Kindly save the details for future reference.

Functional Literacy and Numeracy Skills are vital for refugees to navigate and thrive in host countries.

Cohort 2 is ongoing courtesy of the who are ensuring refugee women are not being locked out of opportunities due to their inability to communicate.

Cohort 2 of our functional literacy and numeracy program is underway, and the momentum from last year is carrying us forward.

In 2025, in our first cohort graduated with skills that many of us take for granted: reading, writing, and basic math. Skills that unlock something bigger than they sound. The ability to fill out a form without asking for help. To serve a customer confidently. To send a message and know it says what you meant.

Displacement cuts off schooling. Host countries don't always pick up where conflict left off. RefuSHE, with the generous support of the Zakat Foundation of America, is stepping into that gap for refugee women in Eastleigh, Nairobi.

Learn more at refushe.org

Over the past two weeks, our team has worked with refugee women in the communities we serve to identify and nominate peace champions who will represent urban refugees on Kenya’s National Peace Steering Committee, ensuring their perspectives are included in national peacebuilding processes.

The 20 nominees (16 women and 4 men) are refugees with lived experience of displacement and resettlement, and deep roots in the communities they represent. That lived proximity to community realities is what makes their voices essential in shaping inclusive and grounded peacebuilding efforts.

We are grateful to GIZ Kenya and the Civil Peace Service (CPS) of GIZ programme for funding and supporting this critical work.

Refugee voices must be present where decisions are made. We are proud to help make that inclusion possible.

Visit refushe.org to partner with us or support this work.