refugees

The remarkable story of Malala Yousafzai and her struggle to secure education for all, especially for girls and refugees, has left an indelible mark on the world.

There’s a big difference between immigrants and refugees, and the one main factor that separates them is how they have come to leave their home country and find another.

Genocide has become a term that has too frequently surfaced in recent human history, including Rwanda. This month marks the anniversary of the beginning of the Rwandan genocide. On April 7th, 1994, war broke out in this small African country […]

Overwhelmed by the influx of migrants and refugees from conflict in the Middle East and now Ukraine, European governments have considered barring rescue boats from using their ports. For example, during June of 2017, more than 12,000 migrants crossed the […]

(Trigger/Content Warning: This series talks about the effects of Nazism in Germany and war.) The last two parts of this series focused on just my grandfather Hans and his time in Germany before and during World War II, but there […]

(Trigger/Content Warning: This series talks about the effects of Nazism in Germany and war.) When looking back in history, one of the hardest times the human race has faced so far is both world wars, especially the atrocities committed during […]

About the Refugee Olympic Team Millions of people displaced. Families, training facilities and futures torn apart. Hopes reduced to rubble. This is how the global refugee crisis looks. According to the United Nations (UN), approximately 80 million people were forcibly […]

Reasons why the border crisis has escalated to a mass exodus from the Northern Triangle/ Central America, and ways the U.S. is part of the problem and the solution.