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Rekindling Hope: How Support Programmes Aid Migrant Returnees in Bangladesh to Rebuild Their Lives

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FIWON receives ILO’s start-up tools for migrant returnees

The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has handed over start-up tools to the Federation of Informal Workers Organisations of Nigeria (FIWON) to reintegrate and create livelihood opportunities through access to skills and tools for migrant returnees.

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IOM Promotes Reintegration of Returnees in Honduras

Juticalpa – IOM delivered seed capital to 25 migrants returned to Honduras, in order to take productive actions as part of their sustainable reintegration process.

Juticalpa – IOM delivered seed capital to 25 migrants returned to Honduras, in order to take productive actions as part of their sustainable reintegration process.

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‘One failed journey is not the end of your life’ – fighting the stigma of return

Tens of thousands of people have set out from West and Central Africa in recent years in the hope of reaching Europe. Not all have completed the dangerous journey – opting instead to retrace their steps and return to their families. But going home brings new risks – including being seen by the community as ‘a failure’.

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Elderly Migrant Returnees Find Shelter and Care in Addis Ababa

Addis Ababa – Sixty-one-year-old Mebratu Teshome spent 10 years in Somalia. He is the first elderly migrant returnee to find a permanent home at a shelter in the Ethiopian capital. When he arrived back in the country, he was psychologically unstable and received tailored counselling and psychiatric assistance at the IOM-run migrant transit centre situated near Bole International Airport.

Addis Ababa – Sixty-one-year-old Mebratu Teshome spent 10 years in Somalia. He is the first elderly migrant returnee to find a permanent home at a shelter in the Ethiopian capital.   When he arrived back in the country, he was psychologically unstable and received tailored counselling and psychiatric assistance at the IOM-run migrant transit centre situated near Bole International Airport.

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Sudanese Migrant Returnees to Access Health Insurance

Khartoum – Abuse, stress and lack of medical care are constant bedfellows for migrants in Libya’s detention camps – and those who are rescued unwittingly transfer the health burden to their countries of origin where assistance is often limited. Luckily for Sudanese returnees, a solution is underway. Returning migrants in the country will soon access healthcare under the country’s National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF).

Khartoum – Abuse, stress and lack of medical care are constant bedfellows for migrants in Libya’s detention camps – and those who are rescued unwittingly transfer the health burden to their countries of origin where assistance is often limited.    Luckily for Sudanese returnees, a solution is underway. Returning migrants in the country will soon access healthcare under the country’s National Health Insurance Fund (NHIF).

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IOM, Malawi, Mozambique Discuss Community-Based Reintegration for Returnees from South Africa

Blantyre, Malawi – “My children are being supported through my projects of poultry, brick construction, and farming. Each project supports the other and, in this way, money is readily available,” says Cryford Nyangulu, a Malawian who returned to his native town of Mzuzu, from South Africa in October 2018.

Blantyre, Malawi – “My children are being supported through my projects of poultry, brick construction, and farming. Each project supports the other and, in this way, money is readily available,” says Cryford Nyangulu, a Malawian who returned to his native town of Mzuzu, from South Africa in October 2018.

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UN Missions to Senegal Visit Kolda, Home to Many Returnee Migrants

Dakar – The Kolda region in southern Senegal is the main area of return for 31 per cent of the 4,090 Senegalese stranded in Libya and Niger and who were assisted for voluntary return to Senegal between May 2017 and May 2019, under the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrants Protection and Reintegration.

Dakar – The Kolda region in southern Senegal is the main area of return for 31 per cent of the 4,090 Senegalese stranded in Libya and Niger and who were assisted for voluntary return to Senegal between May 2017 and May 2019, under the EU-IOM Joint Initiative for Migrants Protection and Reintegration.