Conflict
Afghanistan
Mothers Running With Families · Syria
Arrival: The Potato Fields
"How did they have the courage and strength to run from the bombs, through the cities and the snipers and the rebels and Assad’s army and ISIS to this hopeless barren potato field?"
Emilia · Honduras
Arrival: I Took Sanctuary
I Fear for my Daughter's Life and My Own
Pedro · Guatemala
The Journey: I've Learned to Be Grateful for Everything
Immigration is tough, very tough.
Elizabeth
Work is Scarce and Then There Are The Gangs
To think of the danger it was to leave my country, to come here, is less than to know that my daughter could have died that day.
Wilmot & Maddie Collins · Liberia
I'm Here To Listen
Wilmot Collins - Mayor of Helena, Montana
Bangladesh
Pat · A West African Country
The Journey: My Heart Felt Dead
So the man started flogging me. See the scars? All over my body!
Norina - Afghan from Iran · Iran
I Just Want to Be Free
I had no rights, no freedom to choose my path.
Edress - Afghan from Iran · Iran
Arrival: Mental Health
"Refugees experience all kinds of trauma prior to, during, and after their journeys to safety..."
Rohingya Child - Unaccompanied Children · Myanmar
Arrival: Physical Health
"Refugees have often known extreme hunger, sleeplessness, frostbite, sunstroke, ... various sicknesses and ailments that have gone untreated during long periods preceding their flight and during the journey itself..."
Stateless Refugees - Cox Bazaar · Myanmar
Arrival: Limbo
"Of the 71 million forcibly displaced people in the world, 41 million are displaced within their own countries..."
Rasheeda · Iran
The Journey: What We Carry
I pray most of all for my children who are still in Afghanistan and Iran.
Saheba - AFghan from Iran · Iran
Arrival
"I only want to be treated like a human being. I just want to be free and to live in peace and safety..."
Rohingya Women · Myanmar
Why We Flee: The Rohingya Women
Whilst safe from the Myanmar military in the camps, Rohingya women remain at risk due to gender-based and sexual violence, discrimination, human trafficking and health problems
Ghezal · Afghanistan
Why We Flee: The Taliban Says We are All Infidels
If you have a child, you will understand how I feel.
Amina · Syria
Belonging: A Math Teacher and a Mother
I have missed three years of their lives. I will never get them back.
Ali · Afghanistan
The Journey: I Crossed the Mountainous Border
I kept thinking, "I will be dead; I'm not going to make it!"
Leonard · Democratic Republic of the Congo
Our Lives Before: Born a Survivor
Forced to be a rebel then a spy, Leonard was protected by the pygmies