Refugees discover they can’t go home again
After months in a refugee camp, a woman we’ll call Hana decided to try going home. Home was all she thought about as she wiped dust off her children’s faces, cooked whatever food she could find, and cleaned their little spot of ground in the refugee camp. The day that...
There’s no place like home
In the “Wizard of Oz,” young Dorothy is stranded in a land far from her home in Kansas. Over the course of the story, she realizes how wonderful her home is, and she longs desperately to return. In the end, all she has to do is click together the heels of her magical,...
Update from Syria: the horrors continue
Once again in Syria, innocent civilians are being forced from their homes … whether their home was a remaining structure or an unstable refugee tent.Over the past several weeks, a resurgence of bombings in Syria’s Idlib province has killed more than 300 civilians,...
‘The afflicted shall eat and be satisfied …’
For most American children, there is no question of where they will sleep tonight or where their next meal will come from.But for South Sudanese children like Afiya, this is the unfortunate reality. (One YOU can help solve.)Afiya, whose name we’ve changed for her...
Starvation: The new ‘normal’ for refugees
“Starving Syrian refugee sets herself on fire.” After 28-year-old Sundus Fathallah was dragged from her burning tent in January, this startling headline appeared in newspapers across the Middle East. Everyone assumed the young mother had attempted to take her own life...
Every day, I try to live my life in such a way that I accomplish at least one thing that will outlive me and last for eternity.