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American Refugee Committeeâs Income Generation Program (ARC/IGP) was established in Sierra Leone at the end of 2003 as a part of the Microenterprise/Income Generation Program (MED/IGP) of American Refugee Committee International (ARC). ARC/Sierra Leoneâs (ARC/SL) headquarters are located in Freetown. The office for ARC/IGP, however, is in Kenema, which is the third largest city in Sierra Leone, ... read morelocated in Kenema District, Eastern Province. ARC/IGP is active in four of the eight neighboring refugee camps for Liberian refugees. These include: Jembe, Gerihun, Largo and Tobanda with populations of: 7,337; 6,806; 6,764; and 7,208, respectively. These numbers are from March 2004, when a re-verification was conducted by UNHCR because many Liberian refugees were self-repatriating around the beginning of the year. This re-verification calculates that 24,819 people spontaneously repatriated between October 2003 and February 2004.read less
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