June 5, 2018 Refugee kids have been in the news a lot recently. Tune in to PBS to check out this short documentary supported by The Puffin Foundation that follows students at a New York City summer program for children seeking asylum from the world’s most volatile conflicts. Mark your calendars! Refugee Kids will be broadcast on WNET Channel Thirteen at Saturday...
“The man had sent a voice message to the mother explaining they were in the middle of nowhere, with no food or water, hearing only animals,” the leader said. She said that workers networked with an attorney and migration officials to expedite the mother’s registration and accommodation, enabling her to be released from jail and reunited with her son. They also helped...
A Syrian refugee mother in Jordan had no money to treat debilitating illness, much less her children’s schooling, and they asked her why they couldn’t learn to read and write like other kids. Bombings had driven the family of nine from Syria, but not before dust and other pollutants of war had exacerbated her asthma. “My condition continued to worsen as I suffered...