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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Aug 25

    An Arkansas dad and a Congolese refugee discover they share the American Dream. 🇺🇸 Meet Cobi and Majidi

    1 reply . 7 retweets 11 likes
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    Many are asking us how to help refugees. Our shares 8 practical ways you can get involved today!

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  3. Retweeted
    20h

    Fears pushing people to flee in Central America follow them across borders. Criminal networks are regional. So must be protection responses.

    39 retweets 54 likes
  4. 3h

    More than 65 million people have been displaced by persecution, conflict, violence, or human rights violations

    3 retweets 5 likes
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    Aug 25

    Forced displacement is a real issue in Central America and tackling it is key to ensuring regional stability.

    "There is a crisis of forced displacement in the region with serious protection concerns" says at press conference in Mexico
    15 retweets 12 likes
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    Aug 28

    Can you imagine a world 🌍 more open to refugees? Here's how it can happen:

    Imagine a world more open to refuguees
    7 replies . 126 retweets 157 likes
  7. 14h

    An Arkansas dad and a Congolese refugee discover they share the American Dream. 🇺🇸 Meet Cobi and Majidi

    6 retweets 8 likes
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    Aug 26

    Fleeing gang violence in Central America - how we are helping Guatemala create safe spaces for asylum seekers.

    45 retweets 54 likes
  9. 17h

    Here's what happened when teenagers in New Jersey spent the summer hanging out with refugee teens from Syria + Iraq

    2 retweets 13 likes
  10. 18h

    “I’m just thinking about the future of my family.” A young boy nicknamed ‘Little Picasso’ hasn't lost hope.

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  11. 20h

    “We had no food. We drank from the river... We had nothing else with us.”

    3 retweets 6 likes
  12. Retweeted
    Aug 26

    We all should read at least one story like this each day. "A welcome for in the..heartland"

    8 retweets 11 likes
  13. Retweeted
    Aug 28

    Meet Farhad Nouri, the refugee dubbed ‘the little Picasso.’

    This 10-year-old Afghan refugee is now known as Little Picasso
    7 replies . 279 retweets 358 likes
  14. Aug 28

    See how telling human stories can help build welcoming communities for refugees

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    Aug 27

    has become a destination for many refugees and asylum seekers - here our visits Cafemin shelter in Mexico City.

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    4 replies . 43 retweets 91 likes
  16. Aug 28

    Every 3 seconds, another person is forced to flee their home. The root problem is war, not people who flee.

    5 retweets 4 likes
  17. Aug 28

    “Their dream is the American dream.” Cobi shares what he learned when he welcomed a refugee family to Arkansas

    1 retweet 8 likes
  18. Aug 28

    This is not a rich world crisis. 85% of refugees are in poorer countries - our - via

    8 replies . 48 retweets 50 likes
  19. Aug 27

    Breaking bread: Kansas families are having cross-cultural dinner parties A few things they have learned ➡️

    5 retweets 7 likes
  20. Aug 27

    The story of a teen refugee who survived a shipwreck and saved a baby’s life, by our

    4 retweets 8 likes
  21. Aug 27

    "The world is changing and we need to change with it," These refugees are putting down new roots in 🌱

    1 reply . 3 retweets 7 likes

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