by vaulman | Jun 9, 2010 | Back Home, Family, Fearing the Law, The Migration, Work, Jobs and Money
“You help somebody, he help you. Yeah man, always had help,†Esayas Mesfin says of his life as a refugee. It is a concept that has been with Mesfin since he fled Ethiopia in 1998. As a refugee at Kakuma Refugee Camp in Kenya, Mesfin always had help from family,...
by vaulman | Jun 3, 2010 | Good Question, Problems with Papers
Scared and alone in Detroit Metro Airport, 17-year-old Cynthia thought of lies to tell the American customs agents. An imaginary brother’s wedding in Canada was the excuse she came up with, and the agents saw right through it. They demanded the truth from her,...
by vaulman | Apr 12, 2010 | About
I was in sixth grade at my small Catholic school when we were told about a school-wide special project to focus on cultural diversity. Each grade would choose a country to learn about and share with the rest of the school. I remember most of the grades wanted to...
by vaulman | Apr 12, 2010 | The Migration
Art for Refugees in Transition,  or A.R.T, is the charitable brainchild of Sara Green, a graduate of Columbia’s business school who discovered a void in refugee camps on a visit to the Balkans. The people living in the camps had left their homes with little hope...
