Political Instability

Wilmot Collins - Mayor of Helena, Montana

I had no rights, no freedom to choose my path.

"Refugees have often known extreme hunger, sleeplessness, frostbite, sunstroke, ... various sicknesses and ailments that have gone untreated during long periods preceding their flight and during the journey itself..."

"I only want to be treated like a human being. I just want to be free and to live in peace and safety..."

We lived peacefully. But when gang members wanted me to sell drugs in the middle of my fruit, I said, “No.”

If you have a child, you will understand how I feel.

I have missed three years of their lives. I will never get them back.

I kept thinking, "I will be dead; I'm not going to make it!"

Amina is one of countless indomitable refugee mothers in the world

Women of the World

The people of Europe, they that think that we just came here to look for money. No!

We only had enough to get this far, here in Greece. Now we’re stuck.

​You have to have faith and trust in humanity.

Everyone has his own road and his own destiny.

I said, “God, OK, if today is my last day, let it be.”

" I want to leave something for my children and grandchildren. The Italians give me a place to sleep and food, but I need help finding a job..."

“Call your family. Send money.” I said, “I don’t have family. I am an orphan.”

My husband told me to go to Germany with our youngest son because I am a math teacher and can speak English, and because I am strong.

"I like being in school again..."