How becoming Homeless and being Home schooled ignited Rya Kuewor’s Passion and Career.

Personal Innovation Podcast

In this episode of your motivational Personal Innovation Podcast, I had a very insightful chat with Rya Kuewor.

Since childhood Rya dreamt of becoming a medical practitioner but this changed when he became homeless and had to beg for food and do menial jobs to survive.

Today, Rya is a refugee education and integration consultant with 6 years of working in higher and marginalised education in Ghana, Mali, and Burkina Faso, Singapore, and Kenya, and 4 years of working on refugee education with a special focus on societal integration.

His passion for refugees stems from him having been homeless once, and never having been formally educated.

Rya speaks 9 local and International languages, is a TEDx Speaker, and is a Fellow of the Amani Institute.

He has worked as a consultant for the Ghana Refugee Board through the Open University of West Africa, and also with a mobile education company in building and delivering entrepreneurship and healthcare courses to micro-entrepreneurs and secluded communities.

Rya has researched refugee societal and economic integration in the Krisan, Ampain, and Dadaab refugee camps. Today, Rya co-runs RIO (Refugee Integration Organisation) in Ghana and Brazil, working with refugees, Internally Displaced People (IDPs), and Persons of Concern (PoCs) and provides them with language and cultural courses, and scholarships for higher education in transferable skills.

His work promotes social inclusion and economic independence for refugees, IDPs, and PoCs in Africa and South America.