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From Oral Histories and Into Better Programming
The Refugee Archive is a nonprofit focused on displaced single mothers and female-headed households (FHHs) living in active, real-time displacement, including refugees and internally displaced families.
We collect long-form, trauma-informed, consent-led oral histories through locally trusted partners who live and work alongside these communities. Interviews often unfold over multiple sessions across days or weeks, giving women the time and control to tell their stories fully from childhood through displacement and motherhood.
We preserve these testimonies and translate them into research, education, and country-based Story-to-Action Labs, so practitioners, educators, researchers, and policy teams can access reliable context and community-led insight to inform programs and decisions.
Each country is unique, requiring it's own country portfolio.
Each Story-to-Action Lab is a country portfolio. It brings together all of our work in that country – oral histories, education, and research – under a single core model that we adapt to the local geography, law, culture, language, and resources. Our staff and grassroots partners are organized by Lab, so every country has its own focused Story-to-Action Lab team and portfolio.
Labs are co-run with grassroots partners and local leaders. Our work is grounded in relationships and day-to-day knowledge, not fly-in, fly-out projects.
