Journalist and photographer Sean Hawkey has just returned from one month with the Honduran 'Migrant Caravan'. This is a moving, intimate account of travelling with people who had no choice other than to take huge risks migrating north.With det

Samira Harnish - Nansen 2018 Americas Award - Supporting female refugees to become self-reliant

Nov 12th, 2018 24m 16s

Samira Harnish founded Women of the World and her work was recognised by the UNHCR when she won the Nansen Award for the Americas this year. She helps displaced women to become self-reliant. They offer an individual customised service for every

Mohammed Nour: Aleppo to Greece to Switzerland

Oct 8th, 2018 32m 22s

Mohammed Nour talks movingly to co-founder John about his journey from the tragedy of Aleppo, dealing with smugglers to get into Greece with his family, being stuck in a camp for nearly 2 years until finally getting a chance to realise his drea

Dina Nayeri: Returning to a refugee camp

Oct 1st, 2018 22m 6s

In this week's special podcast, we follow up with writer Dina Nayeri after her visit to two of the camps where we work. She wrote movingly about her visit in the Guardian.As a child refugee herself, there were many parallels with her childhood

Joy Stacey - opening up opportunities to higher education

Sep 24th, 2018 21m 8s

Joy Stacey of Brighton-based Silat Network is setting up a service to offer training and mentoring to students in refugee communities so that they can access universtiy education abroad. There are plenty of scholarships and university places

Rana Toukan - Incubating 12 new businesses at Katsikas

Aug 6th, 2018 24m 26s

One of our trustees, Rana, talks about the people she is helping us to support with our new Business Fund for refugees at Katsikas camp. The Business Fund is the next step in our model to bring dignity and normality to people stuck in refugee c

Crisis in Cameroon: Activist Nkenga raising awareness and building peace

Jul 23rd, 2018 29m 9s

Over the last 2 years in Cameroon, conflict between the Franch speaking government forces and the English speaking separatist movement has led to huge numbers of internally displaced people and refugees fleeing to Nigeria.We talk to activist N

Melina Macall: Uniting the States of America with Syrian food

Jun 25th, 2018 28m 41s

On our recent tour to the US we spoke at a United Tastes of America event in Montclair NJ and were inspired by what the two founders - Melina and Kate - have achieved by bringing people together over food. Their motto is something we'd love to

Refugee Support Europe aged 2: Talk at Montclair, New Jersey

Jun 18th, 2018 38m 53s

Today is the final date in our US tour speaking to supporters about what is possible when people help people and what the latest situation is facing refugees in Europe right now. This talk is by Paul speaking at the Bnai Keshet Synagogue in Mo

Sharon Silvey: from emergency aid to an asylum information service

Jun 4th, 2018 27m 50s

Sharon started helping refugees on the Balkan route in 2015 with emergency support, but got frustrated with the duplication and the waste. It was clear to her that what refugees really needed was reliable and timely information about their lega

Christa Hobart: Walker, Volunteer and Mom from Buffalo

May 28th, 2018 34m 58s

Christa came to Greece in 2015 to do what she could for refugees, like so many of us after seeing the body of Alan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish shore. She has made several humanitarian trips to Greece with our friends Carry the Future and Allie

Zoe Papadopoulou: Idomeni's Greek volunteer movement

Apr 30th, 2018 46m 52s

We worked closely with our good friend Zoe when she was the UNHCR Officer at Alexandreia refugee camp but she was supporting refugees as a volunteer 18 months before that. She was part of the very first response at Idomeni.As 19 Refugee Suppor

Claudia Bonamini of JRS on 20 March EU Turkey deal

Apr 16th, 2018 27m 40s

With borders closing across Europe, refugees arriving were getting trapped in the southern states of Greece and Italy. The political solution to this was the EU statement of 20 March 2016 to slow the arrival of refugees from Turkey.Two years o

Ingrid Van Loo - Hosting refugees in her home

Apr 9th, 2018 25m 54s

Ingrid started supporting refugees in the Calais jungle in 2015 and went on to do much more, now hosting 4 refugees in her own home.Giving refugees a place to stay is obviously important but it also means they get essential support to access a

Richard Williams - Sanctuary on Sea

Mar 26th, 2018 28m 15s

The Sanctuary organisation is a national volunteer movement devoted to offering a welcome and safety for people fleeing violence and persecution. In Brighton, that is the very active Sanctuary on Sea, chaired by Richard Williams, where they:-

Bea Shrewsbury - from Daughter of a Refugee to Trustee

Feb 26th, 2018 25m 45s

Bea Shrewsbury volunteered on a camp last year and it changed her life. She's now a trustee, serial volunteer and champion fundraiser.Her inspirational mother came to England as part of the kindertransport from Germany just before WWII and Bea

The bonniemob giving back through sales

Feb 12th, 2018 17m 4s

Tracey Samuel runs bonniemob, a Brighton-based family business that designs and sells kids clothes around the world. Upset at the plight of the refugees in 2016 and keen to do something she decided to help Refugee Support by doing what she does

Ros Ereira Solidarity with Refugees

Feb 5th, 2018 24m 23s

In 2015, Ros was working in TV and volunteering at her Synagogue's refugee support group, when the facebook event she set up quickly became a huge demonstration with 100,000 people. From there, Solidarity with Refugees was born which Ros now le

Tasha Freidus - NeedsList co-founder

Jan 29th, 2018 21m 13s

Tasha has created an online marketplace that brings together humanitarian organisations who list what they want in real time and donors who want to help by buying a thing is needed. NeedsList has only been going for about a year and already met

Help Refugees Jack Steadman

Jan 22nd, 2018 29m 50s

Jack went to Calais for a month in 2015 and ended up staying for a year. He was central to the hugely ambitious shelter building project only to see it all bulldozed and burnt down.He's now Head of Community Development at our great friend and

Refugee Radio founder Stephen Silverwood: the last 10 years

Jan 15th, 2018 21m 36s

Brighton-based Steve started Refugee Radio 10 years to create an arts programme with refugees but it quickly morphed into a mental health support service.Steve talks about this critical servce, but also in the context of the last decade workin

Meerfez: I want our whole family to be together

Jan 8th, 2018 25m 17s

Meerfez is 25 and lives in Filippiada camp with his wife. Left with no choice and under tragic circumstances, he left Afghanistan in 2015 and is trying to reach his brother in Germany.With great calm and dignity, Meerfez describes an epic jour

Volunteer Co-ordinators Austin and Sue: Celebrating diversity

Jan 1st, 2018 28m 14s

Austin is aged 20 from the USA and Sue is 68 from the UK, but they are both united by a desire to put others first. They are fantastic volunteers who have given up their time and energy to help refugees in Greece and do the important job of co-

Mimi Hapig of Habibi Works: Creating something genuinely empowering

Dec 25th, 2017 19m 30s

Mimi started helping refugees in Europe two years ago and in that time she and her organisation Soup & Socks have had to adapt and change what they do. They started with a community kitchen on camp that got shut down by the army so they evolved

Dina Nayeri: Author, Teacher, Mother, Refugee

Dec 18th, 2017 32m 15s

Dina Nayeri had to leave Iran as a refugee at the age obf 8 and first stayed in a reception centre in Italy before going on to have a successful international academic and literary career. In April 2017, she wrote a brilliant and insightful art