Solaf loves sports and dreams of living in America
Solaf, 9 years old: “My name is Solaf and I’m from Bosra in Syria. I remember my house there. It was big with a brown door. There was a garden outside with olive trees, ...
Mojtaba dreams of finding a cure for cancer
Mojtaba, 22 years old: “The journey to Europe was very tough. I was only 13 at the time. I lost my older brother on the way. He drowned on the crossing between Turkey and Greece. ...
UNHCR battles cholera at world’s largest refugee complex
DADAAB, Kenya, Dec 31 (UNHCR)—Health workers at the world’s largest refugee complex in Kenya are gaining the upper hand in battling a cholera outbreak that has killed 10 people and sickened around 1,000 others ...
The Keleti Passage
Ashkan and Setays, siblings from Afghanistan. They drew their home, surrounded with a wall and a small crack where they escaped. Dr. Judit Mogyorós, 42, from Hungary. Judit works as a pediatrician in Budapest’s ...Building a future through education in Chad
DJABAL REFUGEE CAMP, Chad, Dec 14 (UNHCR)—Anas, 10, and Zoera, eight, leap out from under their mosquito net into the cool morning air. It is only 6:45 when brother and sister rush through the ...
A Teenage Refugee Champions Girls’ Education
A passionate advocate for the education of girls and young women in Jordan’s refugee camps, Muzon has been hailed as Syria’s answer to Malala. When Muzon’s family fled the war in Syria in early 2013, ...
COP 21: Climate change, refugees and couture
LONDON, Nov 30 (UNHCR)—A dress made from the heavy fabric of a tent used to shelter refugees in Jordan shimmers unexpectedly into life at the busy London train station, sparkling with weather data provided ...
UNHCR water project aids road safety in Kyrgyzstan
TASHTAK, Kyrgyzstan—For children in this Kyrgyzstan village which was once torn apart by ethnic strife, a daily trek to get buckets of drinking water posed an unexpected danger: traffic. “Whenever my sister and I ...