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10 Years In Review Returning home

Australian donors have contributed to many UNHCR returning home operations, providing relief packages, transport and support for vulnerable groups. Over several years donors helped provide funds for the return of refugees to Afghanistan and Burundi as well as more than 10,000 South Sudanese refugees.

Support included transport, shelter and funds for education and livelihood projects for the returnees. In Papua New Guinea we funded a range of education, livelihood and training assistance programs for resettled West Papuan refuges living in the remote border area near the Fly River.

When the peace treaty ending the civil war in Sudan was signed in 2005, some 223,000 Sudanese were living in Uganda. UNHCR has been helping them with their journey home, providing a repatriation package consisting including blankets, sleeping mats, plastic sheets, mosquito nets, water buckets, kitchen sets and more. UNHCR/E. DenholmA Sudanese refugee is reunited with a family member in Moli Village, South Sudan. In May 2008, some 125,000 Sudanese had returned home with UNHCR assistance. UNHCR/V. VikReturning Afghan refugees wait at a transit center in the border town, Dogharon. This transit center is an important point in the process of voluntary repatriation. UNHCR / Z. Soleimani / September 2004