Climate change: How the defining crisis of our time is impacting displacement
For more than seven decades, UNHCR has been providing aid and protection to people who have been displaced from their homes due to war, conflict and persecution. Now, there is another devastating threat driving displacement and uprooting the lives of millions in the...
UNHCR helps Syrian student on his journey to higher learning
The UNHCR refugee scholarship program (DAFI) has sponsored more than 18,500 refugee students in over 50 countries since it began in 1992. Shadi Al Mesitef was a DAFI scholar at Zarqa University in Jordan where he studied medical laboratory. He graduated in June of...
Welcome warmth: How cash assistance offers a lifeline for Syrian families.
The COVID-19 pandemic that has had the world in its grip for the past two years has made life very difficult for Abu Ahmad (pictured above) and his family. As a construction worker in Aleppo, Syria, Abu was able to support his family for years; but a number of health...