Imagine working for the UN Refugee Agency in far-off places. How do you stay in touch so you don’t miss important news from friends & family at home?
Meet Aurvasi Patel. Aurvasi has recently arrived to HQ after spending four and half years working for the Agency in Afghanistan. Her resume boasts posts from all over the globe — Hong Kong, Vietnam, Tajikistan, Sri Lanka, Bosnia…the list goes on.
The first thing you notice walking into UNHCR headquarters is the sheer size of the
building. Walking into the atrium, you look straight up, seeing all 8 floors from below, with natural light coming in from the skylight above. Home to almost 700 UNHCR employees, headquarters is the base for over 6,000 other staff [...]
UNHCR fundraiser Jens Hesemann left his comfortable life in Geneva to help set up the Choucha and Ramada refugee camps in Tunisia.
Experienced UNHCR staff member Astrid Van Genderen Stort recently completed a three week emergency mission on the Egyptian border where over 5,000 people were stranded, having fled the growing conflict in Libya.
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