
Refugee Ban 1 Year Later - Everything you need to know
This weekend marks one year since the first executive order implementing a travel and refugee ban. Please join other refugee advocate starting today in raising awareness about the bans and the devastating impacts they've had on the refugee and immigrant community over the past year. Here is everything you need to know: IRC: Trump Administration on Track to Miss Own Target for Refugee Admissions International Rescue Committee (IRC) resettlement assessment shows disturbing data

A Former Iraqi Refugee - Hero of an American Banking Scam
Too often we judge people by how they look and forget what makes someone human. In the last year, it seems America’s rhetoric about refugee and Muslims is increasingly hateful, as if we forgot they are human beings just like us. People associate anything Muslim and refugee with negative views. Being a refugee or a Muslim does not make you a bad person, period. I am pleased to share with you the amazing story of a Muslim refugee who happens to be one of the original whistleblo


Thailand's Strongman... not who you think
Patient is a refugee from the Democratic Republic of Congo living in Thailand. He also just so happens to be the 1st place champion of the 2017 Strongman weight lifting championship in Bangkok. Despite constant discrimination living in Thailand, Patient has overcome many obstacles to be respected as an equal competitor among his gym peers. There are 99,000 total refugees and asylum seekers from over 45 countries living in Thailand. 7,000 are urban refugees mostly living in Ba