What we don’t understand about refugees

What we don’t understand about refugees

  Gul Siddiqi is the Arizona area manager of Helping Hand for Relief and Development. Siddiqi believes the biggest misconception about refugees is that they want to leave their country, when in fact, they’d prefer to stay in their home country. Click below to...
Coming To America

Coming To America

Click on the map for more information about refugees and other persons of concern. When Rodrigue Wasanga and his family came to the U.S. in 2011, the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees identified approximately 34.5 million refugees and “persons of concern”...
Video: A Syrian family’s odyssey

Video: A Syrian family’s odyssey

Abby Madan Abby Madan is currently at UC Berkeley studying Political Economy. She is a first generation immigrant who was  raised in six cities, five countries and four continents. Abby carries with her a passion for democratizing underreported stories of social...