Reach Out Refugees
Pen Pals

Refugee Education Sponsorship Program - RESPECT is an apolitical, international, not-for-profit, non-governmental organization (NGO) headquartered in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.

Their flagship project is a global letter exchange program introducing refugee students to non-refugee students. This project creates pen pal relationships between the students, helping non-refugee students learn about the issues facing refugees and internally displaced persons (IDPs).

RESPECT's goals are:

 1.    Learn: To increase awareness of refugee issues among non-refugee students in participating countries.

2.     Build:  To build bridges between non-refugee students and refugee students through pen-pal letter exchange.

3.     Act:  To encourage students to act to raise awareness of refugee issues and to raise some funds for their refugee school. Click on Respect to learn more about becoming pen-pals with refugees overseas and their annual poster contest. 

Click on Respect to learn more about becoming pen-pals with refugees overseas and their annual poster contest.

Read Pen Pal Exchanges from Students of Sudan and Students from the U.S. Go to Alliance for the Lost Boys of Sudan