Projects

ASU’s EdPlus partnered with Kepler — a nonprofit that teams up with universities to bring higher education to refugees in the Kiziba refugee camp in Rwanda — to set up a pilot online course at the camp through the Borderless Opportunities for Learning and Development, or BOLD, program.

ASU is providing an agribusiness course to refugees in Uganda through SolarSPELL, a solar-powered offline digital library created by an ASU associate professor.

ASU students from the School of Social Work helped to create the Smiling Eyes project to conduct dental and vision assessments for the local refugee community. They are also training refugees to help with administrative duties in the pop-up clinics.

School of Social Work students also helped create Global Market, a pop-up shop in downtown Phoenix where female refugee artisans can sell their work with the goal of helping them to become economically self-sufficient and learn management and marketing skills.

The School of Social Work has partnered with ASU’s School of Sustainability and various organizations to study refugees’ access to health care and create a video series for refugees to learn how to navigate the U.S. health care system.

Using the latest technology, ASU and its partners are leading a project to bring clean drinking water systems to refugees and residents in areas with the greatest need in Lebanon and Jordan.

ASU’s Southwest Interdisciplinary Research Center studied the Refugee Health Screener-15 to assess the mental health of female refugees, who are often the victims of violence. The screening tool helps assess women for anxiety, depression and posttraumatic stress disorder in a culturally sensitive way and helps them obtain mental health services, if needed.