RSC-OCAF SEMINAR
Friday 24 February 2012, 4:30pm, Seminar Room 2
Refugee Studies Centre
Oxford Department of International Development
University of Oxford3 Mansfield Road
Oxford, OX1 3TB
The Oxford Central Africa Forum (OCAF) and the Refugee Studies Centre present:
From DR Congo to Tel-Aviv: A Story of Congolese Refugees, Activism and Microfinance
Seminar featuring:
Faida Bakaji Tshuma, 2010 PlaNet International Microfinance Award winner
Faida Bakaji Tshuma is a Congolese national who joined her mother, a human rights activist, in Israel in 2006 as part of a UNHCR family reunification program. Since then she has started a social project for refugee and migrant children, an initiative that won her the 2010 PlaNet International Microfinance Award in the category of Education.
Maria Jose Kanag, Congolese human rights activist with asylum in Israel
Maria Jose Kanga is a human rights activist and founding member of the National Council of Human Rights in Congo. She fled to Israel in 2001, where she is active in Amnesty International and an NGO she founded called Congolese Diaspora in Israel which fights for refugee rights in Israel.
Andrea Kruchik-Krell, Founder of Microfy
Andrea Kruchik Krell founded Microfy in 2008, a microfinance organisation currently partnered with CitiBank that provides small loans to low income earners in Tel Aviv, and international consultancy to local MFI's and aid organisations who seek to help refugee populations in their localities.
If you require special access please contact Heloise Ruaudel in advance.
Tel: +44 (0)1865 281 719
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