06/20/2026
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the 1951 Convention on Refugees, where the legal status of “refugee” was defined and international standards for the treatment of refugees were established and adopted. (source: https://www.unhcr.org/75-anniversary)
Today 117 million people worldwide have been forced from their homes, with as many as 7 out of 10 of those displaced people finding themselves living in long-term displacement. (source: recent report from the UN Refugee Agency https://www.unhcr.org/news/press-releases/7-10-refugees-living-long-term-displacement-unhcr-chief-c…
Many organizations, like the UNHCR, help people survive displacement. HOPE International and partners help those families rebuild livelihoods and flourish.
Opened in 1994 in the midst of violence and upheaval in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Dzaleka refugee camp in Malawi was designed to house 10,000 people temporarily. Today Dzaleka houses approximately 58,000 people, with multiple generations knowing no other home.
HOPE Malawi equips local churches to serve men, women, and children living in the camp. Through this savings group ministry, we see dignity restored and hope ignited. It is our honor to support the work of HOPE Malawi as they work to restore dignity.
“When they are in a group, there is nothing that can defeat them,” Thondo Omakenge Abraham, general secretary of the Dzaleka Christian Churches
Union.
(HOPE video featuring Dzaleka Refugee Camp in Malawi: https://youtu.be/feR_xk1Oj6g)