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UNHCR self-reliance programme helps empower Ivoirian refugee
30 Mar 2009 Ouattara Madoussou has been resettled in Canada. But she will stay in touch with Indonesian friends through an internet business set up with UNHCR help. -
Iraqi family board a flight to Australia and the end of their journey
2 Jun 2008 After almost seven years in Indonesia, a family of Iraqi refugees finally get the opportunity to begin a new life in Australia. -
Refugees in PNG travel the road to self-reliance
12 Mar 2008 Hundreds of refugees in Papua New Guinea could soon take a big step towards self-reliance thanks to plans to upgrade a road and other development schemes. -
Refugee from Myanmar finds farming and friends in Java
27 Nov 2007 A UNHCR self-reliance programme helps a refugee from Myanmar find his feet among an Indonesian farming community. -
Iraqi refugee family traverses half the globe seeking a new home
27 Dec 2006 For one Iraqi, the search for a better life has taken him half-way around the world and thrown him into the clutches of people smugglers. Now safe in Indonesia, but only allowed to stay temporarily, he and his wife and three daughters dream of making a permanent home in a country like Australia. -
Timber finally arrives on Indonesia's Nias Island to rebuild thousands of homes
17 Mar 2006 After months of delay and setback, timber shipments have finally arrived on Nias Island in Indonesia for rebuilding some of the thousands of homes lost in a devastating earthquake which submerged some coastal areas of the island last year. -
Timor-Leste's President Xanana Gusmão warmly welcomed at UNHCR
14 Mar 2006 Timor-Leste's President Xanana Gusmão pays an official visit to the UN refugee agency and is warmly welcomed by High Commissioner António Guterres, who had been Portugal's Prime Minister during the turbulent period of East Timor's separation from Indonesia. East Timor had previously been a Portuguese colony. -
New buildings start to replace submerged villages of Nias Island
22 Dec 2005 While still reeling from last December's destructive Indian Ocean tsunami, Nias Island - off Indonesia's Sumatran coast - was struck again three months later by an 8.7 magnitude earthquake that shifted the entire island and tilted three isolated villages into the sea. Now, with the help of the UN refugee agency, the submerged villages are being rebuilt. -
UNHCR focuses post-tsunami efforts on Aceh's west coast
14 Dec 2005 After a massive three-month relief operation in Indonesia's Aceh province in the immediate aftermath of the 26 December 2004 tsunami, the UN refugee agency returned to Aceh in June 2005 to help with the rebuilding of communities on Aceh's badly damaged west coast.