Conflict

We left our country because the Taliban tried to kill my husband several times.

With the annexation of Crimea, there was a great deal of fear and fighting. Vitalii and Lidiia wanted a better life for their children.

We want to be somewhere that is far from danger, somewhere safe.

Wife, mother of three. Now a refugee seeking a better future for her family.

A husband, a father, a mechanic. Now a refugee.

Tabish's journey to safety sounds like text from a fiction-thriller book.

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

Tiba exudes joy.

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

Watch me fold this plane…

The Boat was Sinking

I know I have to start and build a new life from the beginning.

I am responsible for the welfare of my children.

I’m Worried about My Family

​Ualda comes from a world where it is dangerous for a woman to be educated or outspoken.

Our greatest weapon against all workers of terror is love.

If peace returns to Afghanistan one day, we will definitely go back. I had a peaceful and good life there. I had a house and a job.

Hassan asks: "In times of war, are we in control of our destiny?"

Kamil was born a refugee, as was his father, Akhtar. His Palestinian grandparents fled to Syria in the late 1940’s and raised their family in Yarmouk, a thriving, almost exclusively Palestinian suburb of Damascus.

STORY UPDATE: Akhtar is an expert craftsman in marble and granite. His life's work. All gone.