Employment

God knows what I am, so He will help me.

I want to be able to say, “This is MY house! We can stay forever here and nobody will tell me to go.”

My story is very sad.

I turn off the video … so they won’t feel sad.

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.

The Boat was Sinking

I am responsible for the welfare of my children.

Our greatest weapon against all workers of terror is love.

I came from Syria from the city of Aleppo. I was a math teacher in Aleppo’s high schools.

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.

I am from Afghanistan and I am 18 years old. I want to tell my story of my journey to Europe.

Dr. Abdul Nasser Kaadan, of Aleppo Syria, is a highly regarded physician and scholar. But his honors, credentials, and vital work could not keep him safe in his home country.