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Afghanistan
The Struggles…Can Fill a Story Book
Tabish's journey to safety sounds like text from a fiction-thriller book.

Medina · Afghanistan
Why We Flee: Because We Are Shia, They Want to Destroy Us
I just want to live in a safe place where everyone can live in peace.

Iraq
MAHOMMAD
Mahommad is five-years-old and just moved here.

Iraq
TIBA
Tiba exudes joy.

Iraq
SAKINA
Sakina’s favorite thing about being in America is that it is safe and she gets to go to school.

Iraq
MOHANED AND ZAINAB (3/3)
In September 2016, Mohaned & Zainab arrived in Binghamton, Alabama with nothing.

Iraq
MOHANED AND ZAINAB (2/3)
In Iraq, Zainab was a stay-at-home mom and Mohaned was a taxi driver.

Iraq
MOHANED AND ZAINAB (1/3)
We only want to live in peace and safety.

United Kingdom
Tolerance Doesn't Help Much
It’s the situation that is the horrible… thing. It’s not the people in it.

United Kingdom
HEATHER
What we try to hand out is [empathy from] a human to a human.

United Kingdom
KELVIN
People were … going up and down in their daily lives, not noticing, not seeing.

Dignity
Our inherent value and worth as human beings.

I Am More Than a Number
Watch me fold this plane…

Syria
KHALDIEH
The Boat was Sinking

Afghanistan
Hope
Even when all else is beyond our control, hope keeps us from giving up.

Afghanistan
We Married Anyway
I know I have to start and build a new life from the beginning.

United States
KAYRA
Art to help refugees

Afghanistan
Who Will Listen to Our Pain?
I am responsible for the welfare of my children.

Syria
FIROZ
I’m Worried about My Family

Afghanistan
Only a Mother Who has Lost a Child Knows My Pain
Ualda comes from a world where it is dangerous for a woman to be educated or outspoken.
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