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“Despite her horrific story, there is no trace of hatred in her eyes.” Olivier met Aisha while visiting a refugee camp in Burkina Faso…
Ibrahim has never been and will never be as happy as that moment, when he took his son Hassen in his arms again.”
"I want to finish school and get a good job in order to support my relatives in Africa, because I know that the life that they are living is not easy in the least. I know because I lived it."
Ushindi has a bright future ahead in Canada where he attends school for free and never has to go hungry. He has expanded his horizons and has found new hope.
Antonis was born to a wealthy and respectable family. He had studied International Relations and was involved in politics. However, another bloody coup erupted in his country.
“No human being would prefer losing her beloved country and being called a ‘refugee.’ Everyone would definitely return home if they could,...”
The night Mediatrice Kabasinga left her home in Rwanda, she didn’t know where she was heading. She was eight months pregnant with her second child and running for her life…
That is the very life of a refugee, always forced to flee at the slightest shot of fire.
The crisis in Cote d’Ivoire, began during the day, we found the market, each other, and looking for a place or shelter to avoid stray bullets.
When an indigenous community is forced to displace, their ties with the territory, family and community are broken…
Nabila, a 42-year-old widow, originally from Syria came to Egypt with her two children in hopes of finding a better life.
At the 10th Skopje Marathon, two racers from Guinea attracted the attention of the public with their contagious enthusiasm and smiling faces…
George Butler, an artist and illustrator in current affairs, draws a Syrian refugee family leaving their country…
I had met Bosnian refugees in Malaysia years ago when I was working at a university in the 1990s, and they were very much welcomed by the Malaysian Government and given assistance. Years later, I met a boy who told me he was from Myanmar, begging for money at a café where I was eating.
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