Somali Bantu refugees offer new roots and bountiful harvest in Maine
In Lewiston, Maine, this group of Somali Bantu refugees are helping build community through farming. By Andrea Mucino | 22 November 2022 Their journey was arduous, but their dream survived. Today, that dream has come true in Maine where Thanksgiving tables will be...
‘As a refugee, I have seen the impacts of the climate crisis up close’
From drought and flooding to increasing competition for scarce resources, South Sudanese refugee Opira Bosco Okot knows only too well how the climate crisis has made life harder for displaced people. By Opira Bosco Okot in Kampala, Uganda Opira Bosco Okot, 26, is a...
Former ‘nature beginner’ is now on the front lines of the fight against climate change
By Jenny Barchfield in Guatemala For Joshua, a refugee who fled gang violence, protecting the threatened tropical forests of his host country, Guatemala, has become both a calling and a moral imperative. When he thinks back to his life back before he arrived in...