Germany

It was hard to be gay in my country. You can’t live as a [free] man.

It gives me a bad feeling … that I am safe and my friends are still in trouble.

We left Iran because we are Afghans.

I hope I can find a good life and that I can continue in my profession.

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

Then one of my friends got arrested in a park.

The Boat was Sinking

I’m Worried about My Family

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

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.

They live in uncertainty, but are remarkably resilient and cheerful in bad conditions. They hold up the best they can, and cling to the most important things - loved ones, faith, and hope.