Refugee in sentence

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Being a child refugee has taught me that one could be stripped of everything: food, shelter, clean drinking water, even friendship, but the one thing that no one could ever take away from you is your education.

I mean, just imagine: two girls born in the same refugee camp, reunited for the first time on the cover of British "Vogue."

My story began right here in Kakuma refugee camp, a place of hope.

A Syrian refugee boy I know told me that he didn't hesitate when his life was in imminent danger.

And most troubling of all is that only 20 percent of Syrian refugee children are in school in Lebanon.

And yet, Syrian refugee children, all refugee children tell us education is the most important thing in their lives.

I'm reminded of a recent visit I took to a Syrian refugee camp in northern Iraq, and I met this girl, and I thought, "She's beautiful," and I went up to her and asked her, "Can I take your picture?"

I think she couldn't, because I think she must realize that she represents a lost generation of Syrian refugee children, a generation isolated and frustrated.

You might imagine that being a refugee is just a temporary state.

With wars going on and on, the average time a refugee will spend in exile is 17 years.

We should think of refugee camps and communities as more than just temporary population centers where people languish waiting for the war to end.

Only his cousin survived, and the two of them walked for seven months — this is boys like him — chased and pursued by wild animals and armed gangs, and they finally made it to refugee camps where they found safety, and he would spend the next seven years in Kenya in a refugee camp.

Naghma lived in a refugee camp with her parents and her eight brothers and sisters.

I've been in Bosnian refugee camps.

My mom applied for refugee status.

Was it about me as a child refugee, or as a woman who set up a high-tech software company back in the 1960s, one that went public and eventually employed over 8,500 people?

And we went to a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan in December and shot the story of a 12-year-old girl there named Sidra.

And these are people who might not otherwise be sitting in a tent in a refugee camp in Jordan.

Do you think they're a mother, a refugee or a victim of oppression?

Or a lady here in Brisbane, an Afghan lady who's a refugee, who could barely speak English when she came to Australia, her mentors helped her become a doctor and she took our Young Queenslander of the Year Award in 2008.

If you enroll in private high school tutoring, go to your local state school or maybe just drop into your local refugee tutoring center.

My family was in a refugee camp.

So I went to the refugee camp.

And when I went to the refugee camp in Pakistan, there were 7.5 million refugees.

And you know, in the refugee camp, when I went day-to-day to do a survey, I found things you never could imagine.

But it is also a story about what it's like to be a refugee in Europe today.

It has been dubbed the worst refugee camp in Europe.

In Turkey, he's not accepted at a university, and once he had left Jordan as a refugee, he was not allowed to reenter.

And that's desperation, but that's the reality of living as a refugee in Western Europe in 2015.

A Syrian refugee, 19 years old, she was living a grinding existence in Egypt working day wages.

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