The Taste of Home: Yulia’s 16th-Century Recipe for a New Life
On International Women’s Day, we celebrate the strength, perseverance, and creativity of women like Yulia—a mother, entrepreneur, and refugee who transformed challenges into opportunities. In the autumn of 2022, Yulia and her family—her husband and five children, all...
Happy to be together
Rudi spent two years travelling between Dubai, where he worked, and the Philippines, where his wife Tessie and his little daughter Aishah stayed. All they wanted was to be together. Rudi is a member of the ethnic Kurdish minority. Born in Syria, he lived in the...
Creative arts centre in Belarus builds bridges for refugees
Refugee and local children mingle at a UNHCR-funded project where they can take part in activities from kickboxing to ballet.
Leveraging In-Kind Donations to engage PS Companies – An example in Belarus
In January 2017, a total of 207 asylum-seekers, refugees and forcibly displaced persons received a first batch of free milk products from the local Belarusian branch of Danone, a French multinational food-products company.
Refugees receive clothes from UNIQLO
UNHCR explores innovative ways of attracting additional funds for assisting persons of concern from international country donors and private sector. The Office acts as a mediator in establishing relationships between its implementing partners and sponsors, including...
My only dream is for children to get education
A family from Afghanistan fought for women’s rights and helped orphaned children to get a profession. Because of the constant threats and danger to life, they had to leave their homeland and start from scratch.
Children learn key to coding success at classes in Belarus
IT firm’s staff volunteer to teach refugees and local children to create interactive games and art.
My second home is not a place but people
Tatiana (also: Tanya) from Ukraine thought that happiness is to have your own house where your children were born, with a large garden planted with your own hands. Her family had just two years to live in this paradise. “As I suddenly found myself in a foreign...
What is Home for You?
Nearly 80 million people in the world were forced to flee their homes due to war, persecution and other factors threatening their safety and security. Some of them find their way to Belarus. In the past six years thousands of Ukrainians crossed the Belarusian border...
Refugee families team up to open restaurant in Belarus
A Syrian chef and a Georgian restaurant owner believe their new partnership has all the ingredients of success.