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Malian singer Rokia Traore visited Goudoubo camp, Burkina Faso. The camp hosts some 10,000 Malian refugees who fled a conflict that erupted between a Tuareg rebel group and governmental troops.
American novelist Khaled Hosseini meets Yasser and is moved by the atrocities his young children have seen…
German-born British writer Judith Kerr tells her own refugee story; she escaped from Hitler’s Germany when she was a child…
Alek Wek fled her country when she was five; the Sudanese supermodel tells her story…
Film producer Eric Jankowsky met Olympic athlete Lopez Lomong, and is impressed by his incredible strength, resilience and true love for life.
British actress Romola Garai tells her great-grandfather’s story and she is proud to be a product both of his flight and of the society that nurtured him.
Best selling author and UNHCR High Profile Supporter, Neil Gaiman recently returned from Jordan seeing UNHCR’s frontline work for Syrian refugees…
George Butler, an artist and illustrator in current affairs, draws a Syrian refugee family leaving their country…
Barbara Hendricks, classical singer and UNHCR Honorary Lifetime Goodwill Ambassador, shares the story of her mentor, Jennie Tourel.
Architect Sir Richard Rogers shares the story of his own family’s displacement; It was World War II that caused his family to leave Italy…
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Liberata fled her village, and in the panic, was separated from her son. Henning Mankell visits them reunited…
Malian singer Rokia Traore visited Goudoubo camp, Burkina Faso. The camp hosts some 10,000 Malian refugees who fled a conflict that erupted between a Tuareg rebel group and governmental troops.
British novelist Marina Lewycka was born in a refugee camp in Kiel, Germany after World War II…
Stephen Kelly, a photojournalist was given the assignment to photograph each family holding the most important item they were able to carry with them when they fled their homes.
Thon was born in, Jonglei State, South Sudan. Having fled Sudan as a child, he taught pre-schoolers and worked as a Counselor for Jesuit Refugee Service and Lutheran World Federation in a Kenyan Refugee Camp. He was resettled in the United States in December, 2000 by Lutheran Immigration Refugee Service (LIRS) and thrived in a […]
“With no place to go, the millions urban refugees from Pakistan’s tribal belt are the forgotten victims of an unseen war.”
Supermodel Alek Wek meets refugee children and is reminded how important education is…
Dak from Sudan has been forced to flee his country twice; yet he remains patriotic and once the conflict subsides he intends to return…
This young couple participated in demonstrations against Belarus president Alexander Lukashenko. Soon after they didn’t fell safe anymore.
One of the reasons I became an aid worker is a bit sentimental. As a child, my grandfathers used to tell me stories of WWII, how they suffered and how they were helped…
Paul Mena highlights the difficulties Ecuadorians face when trying to obtain an education, he believes there is still much to tell…
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