#SharetheJourney – Small Wins
Resettling families who can never return to their home countries due to political persecution involves amassing a mound of paperwork. Details are checked and cross checked while medical and security screenings and myriad other steps grind forward. Earlier on this pilgrimage in visiting the impressive operations of Church World Service‘s Resettlement Service Center in Nairobi, Kenya, the Episcopal Migration Ministry Pilgrims met a number of the 300 people who shepherd that process for persons refugeed from a variety of places across Sub-Saharan Africa. The level of professionalism and dedication they apply to their current case load of more than 71,000 refugees is nothing short of awe inspiring.
I asked the Center’s Director, Miro Marinovich, how he and the staff stay so upbeat in a process that involves so much detailed, beaurocratic effort. Without pausing, he said, “Small wins.”
Miro (pictured at left) went on to give the example of a family approved for refugee status by the United Nations High Commission on Refugees who nonetheless had spent nine years in “the pipeline.” This time languishing from approval to resettlement occured for a variety of legitimate reasons. He then told of how many of the staff at RSC pulled together to get the family through the steps to resettlement. He went on to recount the satisfaction they all felt when the family was able to move to a new home in the United States. He also told of how the same team worked hard for an at risk refugee moved to resettlement in 30 days.
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These changes of circumstance, of course, are much more than small wins for the refugees who were moved from persecution and grave danger to the safety of a new life. Miro knows this too as his own life experience includes being refugeed from Bosnia in the 1990s. The amazing fact I discovered during our visit is how the team at the Resettlement Service Center stays focused on that bigger picture while shepherding refugees along the pipeline toward a new beginning. I am humbled by their work and the example it sets.
Peace,
Frank
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