Events

The following pictures were taken at the Refugee Agriculture Partnership Program Workshop hosted this year by the International Rescue Committee of San Diego December 15-17, 2011.

Larry Laverentz of the Office of Refugee Resettlement (above) and Hugh Joseph of ISED Solutions (below) manage the RAPP program and oversee the annual workshop.

ALLWORLD IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ISED SOLUTIONS ANNOUNCES THE FIRST NORTH AFRICA FAST GROWTH 50 Winners Tunis, Tunisia.

Join ISED Solutions and the Office of Refugee Resettlement along with IRC San Diego for

An Educational and Strategic Planning Conference Focused on Refugee & Immigrant Urban Agriculture and Beginning Farmer Programming

By Timothy Olorunfemi

October 20, 2011

Program Coordinator Timothy  Olorunfemi giving technical assistance on Soil Amendment in honor of World Food Day

AllWorld Network and ISED Solutions Use Cisco’s TelePresence Solution To Launch North Africa Fast Growth 50

First-of-its-kind Initiative Identifies Fastest growing private companies in North Africa and Saves Over $120,000 USD in Travel Costs,

In October 19, 2011, Allworld Network and ISED Solutuions launched the Maghreb 50/Egypt 25 in partnership with Cisco.

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Refugee Micro enterprise Conference, which was held on August 4, 2011, in Washington DC, was a well attended event with close to 50 registered, representing 18 programs. The Conference was opened by Ken Tota (below), Deputy Director, who knows the refugee microenterprise (RMED) very well, and is familiar with the challenges and opportunities refugees face in building their businesses.

2011 IDA Conference was a special event for many reasons: for the first time, the conference was organized within the ORR Consultations, and allowed the IDA grantees to see the broader of picture of ORR's work in refugee resettlement. Eskinder Negash, ORR Director, opened the conference and greeted grantees, partners and presenters. Throughout his speech, and in answering grantees' questions, he outlined the current and future directions in ORR's funding.