Gisella Lomax  

@GisellaLomax

Head of at , via . Ex Journalist. Feminist. Optimist. Mancunian 🐝 and European. Mum to two girls.🤳🏻👩🏻‍💻👩🏼‍🎤

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    Jul 3

    Less than 1% of the world's 25.4 million refugees get to university. Scholarships like these are a brilliant way to improve that dire statistic. Thank you 👏🏼🎓

    We've had feedback over the last week that some people are unhappy with our plan to offer up to 14 scholarships to refugees living in the local area. To these people, we would like to say: Tough. Jog on.
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    8 hours ago

    An honor to meet , who’s doing so much for one of the world’s invisible crises, the refugee situation in . Thanks for everything you and your colleagues do!

    Nice to meet social media expert at digital workshop in Nairobi. We all should be learning how to use these new tools for humanitarian causes.
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    6 hours ago

    A very useful piece by researcher on facts and politics in the European debate on migrants and refugees.

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    Jul 4

    I think this is what you mean. "What They Took With Them." Here's the video. Read by Cate Blanchett, Keira Knightley, Juliet Stevenson, Peter Capaldi, Stanley Tucci, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Kit Harington, Douglas Booth, Jesse Eisenberg and me. For

    , there was a video where you narrated a poem about immigrants coming to America, I think it was put out on YouTube around last Christmas, but I can't remember what it was called...do you know what I'm talking about?
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    Jul 1

    Have spent a few days in & around Catania, Italy, meeting with refugees and hearing their stories. As always, I am in awe of their strength & resilience in the face of unimaginable adversity. Photos by

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  6. 8 hours ago

    University of Reading tells people unhappy it is going to give scholarships to refugees to ‘jog on’ . 😀 👏

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    11 hours ago

    Every. Day.

    'Only he deserves power that everyday justifies it.' -Dag Hammarskjold
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    23 hours ago

    “A lot of things are said about people like me - young people, black people, Muslim people, women...I perform to answer those things, to be a voice I didn’t really have growing up.”- GWA ⁦⁩ on using poetry to stand

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  9. 10 hours ago

    Augustine hasn’t seen her six-year-old daughter in a year. She has steeled herself for the worst. “There is no hope,” she says. “I will never see my daughter again.” This story from the Democratic Republic of Congo is hard to read, but deserves to be.

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    11 hours ago

    My statement of today on the critical situation of civilians in South-West Syria.

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  11. 11 hours ago

    "Thousands of innocent lives are going to be lost, once again, if urgent action is not taken." A strong statement from UN Filippo Grandi on south west

    UN Filippo Grandi is gravely concerned about the civilian population caught in the crossfire in south-west Syria, including airstrikes and heavy shelling. An estimated 750,000 lives are in danger. His statement ⤵️
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    14 hours ago

    . and I are spending the day teaching workshops with staff in Nairobi. Watch for tips via . • MY SLIDES:

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  13. 14 hours ago

    Street art in an underpass near to HQ. 's flag surrounded by messages of welcome from around the world.

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    24 hours ago

    This tweet ⤵️ x 1,000. ... If we don't educate refugees, who will rebuild their countries when the time comes to go home?

    Replying to @UniofReading @SaulPeb
    Maybe so, but by proactively bringing refugees into campus you actually may well be edging a step closer towards peace in the Middle East. Tomorrow’s leaders might well be amongst them 👍
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  15. 24 hours ago

    This tweet ⤵️ x 1,000. ... If we don't educate refugees, who will rebuild their countries when the time comes to go home?

    Replying to @UniofReading @SaulPeb
    Maybe so, but by proactively bringing refugees into campus you actually may well be edging a step closer towards peace in the Middle East. Tomorrow’s leaders might well be amongst them 👍
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    Jul 4

    Meet , dynamic head of UNHCR office in Kakuma, home to 185K refugees from 19 nations, working w/ . Has focused on humanitarian issues for two decades. I learned a lot about refugee resettlement and more. FOLLOW HIM! 🇰🇪🇹🇷

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    Jul 4

    This will be good. Respect to !!

    Our Goodwill Ambassador and world champion slam poet Emi Mahmoud will share her heart-stopping poetry at the annual Leadership Summit in Washington, DC! 📲 You can watch LIVE here on July 10 at 2:45pm ET:
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    Jul 4

    48 Burundian wave goodbye before boarding a flight from Kakuma camp in Kenya. While many Burundi refugees are not yet ready to return, we are very happy for these families who have decided now is the right time for them.

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    Jul 3

    GENUINE QUESTION: Does anyone know if there's a Men's Football World Cup?

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  20. Jul 4

    Hats off to the UK's University of Essex which is also helping refugees access higher education. 👏🏼

    Replying to @b_zareen @UniOfYork and 2 others
    Thanks for asking about support for refugees. We have a Refugee Bursary () and we also had a Syrian Refugee Scholarship programme in this academic year.
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    Jul 3

    I will never forget the brave Rohingya refugees I met in Bangladesh who have lived through unspeakable atrocities & face an uncertain future. Beyond heartbreaking. Ways to help here:

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