Refugee Story
![Maddie and Wilmot Collins - Mayor](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/Maddie-and-Wilmot-Collins-Montana-2020.jpg)
Wilmot & Maddie Collins · Liberia
I'm Here To Listen
Wilmot Collins - Mayor of Helena, Montana
![DETENTION AZIZI GIRL 2](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/DETENTION-AZIZI-GIRL-2.jpg)
Greece
![CAMPS COXS BAZAR](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/CAMPS-COXS-BAZAR.jpg)
Bangladesh
![040 Mehrullah Zarghona LS 1915](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/040-Mehrullah-Zarghona-LS-1915_2020-11-18-031525.jpg)
Mehrullah · Afghanistan
The Journey: We Were So Afraid
Our three-year-old boy was lost on the other side.
![LIBYA PAT](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/LIBYA-PAT.png)
Pat · A West African Country
The Journey: My Heart Felt Dead
So the man started flogging me. See the scars? All over my body!
![WATER JALAL HOLDING PHONE](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/WATER-JALAL-HOLDING-PHONE.jpg)
Afghanistan
![DEPORTATION WOMAN LOOKING OUT WINDOW](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/DEPORTATION-WOMAN-LOOKING-OUT-WINDOW.jpg)
Norina - Afghan from Iran · Iran
I Just Want to Be Free
I had no rights, no freedom to choose my path.
![MENTAL HEALTH EDREES](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/MENTAL-HEALTH-EDREES.jpg)
Edress - Afghan from Iran · Iran
Arrival: Mental Health
"Refugees experience all kinds of trauma prior to, during, and after their journeys to safety..."
![PHYSICAL HEALTH ROHINGYA BURN VICTIM](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/PHYSICAL-HEALTH-ROHINGYA-BURN-VICTIM.jpg)
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..."
![LIMBO COXS BAZAR](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/LIMBO-COXS-BAZAR.jpg)
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..."
![WHAT WE CARRY Rasheeda](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/WHAT-WE-CARRY-LAYLA.jpg)
Rasheeda · Iran
The Journey: What We Carry
I pray most of all for my children who are still in Afghanistan and Iran.
![Hania, West Africa](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/146-CM-Haniah-481A3348-compressed.jpg)
Haniah - West Africa · Ghana
Arrival: Law
"He left me with two babies and went to Libya ... I wemt to Libya, but I didn't find him."
![ARRIVAL SUPER STORY PORTRAIT REFUGEE WOMAN TRAIN](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/ARRIVAL-SUPER-STORY-PORTRAIT-REFUGEE-WOMAN-TRAIN.jpg)
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 Woman](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/Rohingya-Woman.jpeg)
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
![APRIL: Asylum | Gangs and Drug Cartels Eduardo](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/GANGS-AND-DRUG-CARTELS-EDUARDO.jpg)
Eduardo · Honduras
Why We Flee: Gangs and Cartels
We lived peacefully. But when gang members wanted me to sell drugs in the middle of my fruit, I said, “No.”
![PERSECUTION GHEZAL](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/PERSECUTION-GHEZAL.jpg)
Ghezal · Afghanistan
Why We Flee: The Taliban Says We are All Infidels
If you have a child, you will understand how I feel.
![OUR LIVES BEFORE Cox Bazar camp life](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/OUR-LIVES-BEFORE-Cox-Bazar-camp-life.jpg)
Myanmar
![OUR LIVES BEFORE NO FAULT OF OUR OWN ROHINGYA CHILDREN](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/OUR-LIVES-BEFORE-NO-FAULT-OF-OUR-OWN-ROHINGYA-CHILDREN.jpg)
Rohingya Children · Myanmar
Stateless and Homeless Through Birth
The first to see the magic - the last to lose hope
![ROYA AND MUNIR OUR LIVES BEFORE UNTHINKABLE LOVED ONE THREATENED](https://assets.tsosrefugees.org/stories/_800x800_crop_center-center_none/ROYA-AND-MUNIR_-OUR-LIVES-BEFORE-UNTHINKABLE-LOVED-ONE-THREATENED.jpg)
Roya · Afghanistan
Our Lives Before: The Unthinkable Happened
In the constitution, on paper, women have equal rights with men, but in reality, they have no rights there.