Refugee Story

In September 2016, Mohaned & Zainab arrived in Binghamton, Alabama with nothing.

In Iraq, Zainab was a stay-at-home mom and Mohaned was a taxi driver.

We only want to live in peace and safety.

The Boat was Sinking

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

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.

This video highlights some of the ways the goats are helping the three communities transition from their old lives in Africa to their new ones in America.

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

We hope for peace, friendship, good behavior and good treatment. And my wish is peace.

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.

We had an 8-year-old daughter, which the Taliban came and kidnapped from in front of our house.

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.

My name is Baraat and I am here in this camp with my wife and three kids. We left our country seeking a better place, and not as the helpless refugees we are now.