"If you want my advice, we need to find people who won't break so easily," my Muslim Rohingya friend and colleague shared with me. We recently discovered that another Rohingya colleague had betrayed one of our coworkers. Would he betray others? Criminal groups are active in the area, and it is …
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She’s a Refugee
Hafiza was only 2 and a half years old when I first met her. Sitting on the rough floor of the shelter in camp where she was born, she is oblivious that she is a refugee. Secure in the love of her family, she needs nothing more. The world has no place for her, but here in her home, she has all she …
Sharing Each Other’s Burdens
Somina weeps as she recalls the nine years she spent in jail in Thailand. Now resettled to a safe country, the trauma she suffered for so long was tangible as she spoke. Somina had been intercepted in 2014 on her way to Malaysia, a country where around 200,000 have sought refuge over the years. …