About Refugees, By Refugees

Hamid

…my life, to want to build my life again. But, when a country doesn’t give you any possibility, how can you make it?” Despite challenges, Hamid says, “The positive thing…

Casio

Casio Moroccan Morocco “My dreams are to come inland, to feel free and to feel safety,” says Casio (pseud, 29), who left Morocco to escape discrimination against their gender. Now…

Syrus

and freedom conditions there.” Syrus traveled to the UK via Turkey and Greece, a journey he describes as “full of fear and worries.” Leaving his family was the worst: “My…

Omair Ulhaq

free… It’s not that easy [to wait] more than two decades of your life, of your prime time, of your youth.” Omair could not see his parents for 12 years,…

Obaid Allah Alam

…of returning one day, when the fighting has stopped. “My dream is when my country become, when my country become freeand to build my country, to help my people.”…

Javier

free press. “I feel safe” in Hamburg, he says, but life has been difficult: “I didn’t know anybody. I didn’t have friends, I didn’t have family. I didn’t speak the…

Mamadou Safaei

…couldn’t even say goodbye to my parents.” Mamadou’s journey to Greece entailed spending freezing nights in the mountains, being arrested and returned, and weathering starvation and storms at sea in…

Yosef

…associations in Russia. I received threats. And because of that, I decided to leave my country…I also left to be able to love freely.” He explains how he f elt…

Garba Kalifa

Garba Kalifa Nigerian Nigeria “What’s good about being here—number one—the human rights,” says refugee Garba Kalifa (32). “You are free, everybody is equal. Nobody is above anybody.” It’s been more…

Zol

…to four years pass very hard,” she says. But “I was a hopeful person, and never lost my hope.” Before leaving Iran, Zol’s dream “was to become free and go…