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They're working in the refugee camps, with chickens and selling the eggs for a little amount of money, or just using them to feed their families, and feeling a sense of pride and empowerment, because they're no longer helpless and depending on others with their vegetables and their chickens.
One of the solar units we installed in a refugee camp.
And what about children in refugee camps, or in very remote rural areas?
It turned out that Hassen was actually my mom's cousin and had just arrived in Montreal as a refugee.
My family's refugee experience is not unique.
As another member of our team, himself also a refugee, put it: "In Canada, a SIM card is more important than food, because we will not die from hunger."
Now, there's not one refugee crisis; there are multiple refugee crises.
So whether I was in a refugee camp in Jordan or a community center in Dallas, Texas or a corporate office in Silicon Valley, women gathered in beautifully magical ways and they built together and supported each other in ways that shifted culture to empower and build safety for women.
The expenditure of 3 billion dollars in refugee camps to try to keep, basically, the people who've been displaced from their homes by the Sudanese government, by the so-called Janjaweed, the militia, to keep those people alive until something more durable can be achieved.
Like a refugee.
Around that time, devastating stories about the Syrian refugee crisis were everywhere.
Before, if any of us had been asked to donate 15 hours a month to help out with the refugee crisis, we probably would have said no.
Just imagine how different the refugee crisis could look if more countries made this possible.
And in the last 16 years, I've been at HIAS, the Jewish organization that fights for refugee rights around the world, as a lawyer and an advocate.
An asylum seeker is simply somebody who's going through the process in the United States to prove that they meet the refugee definition.
I am not an immigrant or a refugee myself, but I take these attacks personally, because my grandparents were.
To give you a sense of the decline in the refugee program: three years ago, the US resettled 15,000 Syrian refugees in response to the largest refugee crisis on earth.
A country is strong when it says to the refugee, not, "Go away," but, "It's OK, we've got you, you're safe."
For this song, I'd like us all to take a minute and think about immigrant communities, and especially refugee immigrant communities, and the daily struggle they have to endure, building a life with dignity and meaning away from everything they have loved and known.
Most disturbingly, there's Maria, a pregnant refugee who begged for medical attention for eight hours before she miscarried in CBP custody.
Trump's mass separations of refugee families at the southern border shocked the conscience of the world and woke many to the cruelties of the US immigration system.
Thousands more refugee children have been taken from their grandparents, siblings and other family members at the border.
And as you've seen, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but the situation is even worse for refugee families today than it was during family separation.
Now not every migrant at the border is a refugee.
So, it would make sense, as a start, to expand the refugee definition to include climate refugees, for example.
But they've done more than restrict the refugee definition.
Today, the US government is fighting for the right to detain refugee children indefinitely in prison camps.
If we do nothing about the housing crisis that's about to happen, in 20 years, one in three people will live in an unplanned settlement or a refugee camp.
Refugee camp in Darfur.
You see a 20-years-old, 30-years-old families in a refugee camps.
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