Escaping by foot over a mountain pass, Galawezh tells us how living as an Iranian Kurd forced the family to flee discrimination and violence after the 1989 Iran Revolution. But life in Iraq offered little respite from the fear and uncertainties

Getting Here - Episode 3 - Jana

Jan 6th, 2021 41m 4s

Jana was born in one of the largest refugee camps in the world. Of Bhutanese and Nepali descent, Jana’s story takes us back to her childhood memories of hunger, muddy hut floors, and chasing airplanes in the sky. Her poetic journey asks quest

Getting Here - Episode 2 - Zeinap Hussein

Dec 23rd, 2020 30m 14s

The war in Somalia in the late 1980’s came too close to home for Zeinap, who decided to leave for Kenya after her family’s home was caught up in crossfires. Her separation from her family and young son stretched from months to years due to the

Getting Here - Episode 1 - Mehdi Azimi

Dec 23rd, 2020 1h 3m

Leaving his rural village in Afghanistan as a 15-year-old, Mehdi shares his long and perilous journey through an underground network of people smugglers in search of safety, education, and certainty about his future. He survives several failed

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