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Journalist Penny Pryor recounts the inspiring story of 22 year old Landry Mugisha, hip-hop dancer and former refugee, now resettled in the USA.
Join UNHCR, Actress Kat Graham and the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts for a special musical performance in recognition of World Refugee Day.
Acclaimed author Khaled Hosseini supports Zal Khan, who built a house through the assistance of UNHCR; He is full of joy because his children are now safe.
American actress Kat Graham meets Abu Hadi and his children in Zaatari refugee settlement. They realized they must stay there until the end of the conflict…
For a long time I had a dream of visiting western countries, the dream to go further to cover graduation from respective university in the west?
For a long time I had a dream of visiting western countries, the dream to go further to cover graduation from respective university in the west? My dreams get bigger when I discovered that all my colleagues in the primary school had same dreams. I started study hard believing that will happen one day and […]
Vampire Diaries star Kat Graham made an emotional visit to Syrian refugee families in Jordan.
Supermodel Alek Wek meets refugee children and is reminded how important education is…
While life carries on even when you are a refugee, Hassan still hopes that a better life is ahead of him.
Barbara Hendricks, classical singer and UNHCR Honorary Lifetime Goodwill Ambassador, shares the story of her mentor, Jennie Tourel.
Supermodel and former refugeeAlek Wek was inspired by returnees’ determination; there was still so much hope and pride…
Khaled Hosseini set up The Khaled Hosseini Foundation, providing shelters to Afghan refugees; Sirajuddin, one of those refugees, tells his story…
As a child, my grandmother arrived from Belarus to Ellis Island with her sister and parents, around 1910.
Her sister though had red eye, conjunctivitis, which though not serious was highly contagious and on the list of diseases that excluded one from entering the U.S. (as did syphilis and TB).
Kat Graham visits Um Murad’s wedding dress shop and beauty salon in Zaatari, Jordan…
Acclaimed Afghan-American author Khaled Hosseini knows what it’s like to be a refugee…
American actress Kat Graham meets Abu’s family. His family still manages to smile and laugh despite the sadness…
In an effort to better understand the complex realities of refugee life, we recently spent one month living alongside displaced families in the Za’atari refugee camp.
Afghan-born American author Khaled Hosseini is moved by families desperate to provide for themselves and not to be reliant…
Afghan-born American author Khaled Hosseini visits a Syrian refugee camp in Kurdish Iraq and is moved by refugee children and the experience they have to go through.
“Tea.” He motioned for me to sit. The old man was with a group of several dozen people who, hours earlier, had fled their village…
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