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6.20 World Refugee Day#StepWithRefugees

June 20 is World Refugee Day, an UN-designated international observance dedicated to raising awareness of the global refugee issue, and encouraging international support for and engagement with people forced to flee their homes. UNHCR organizes a variety of cultural and sports events to celebrate this special day that originally began in 2001 to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the adoption of the 1951 Refugee Convention (Convention Relating to the Status of Refugees). UNHCR’s 2019 campaign #StepWithRefugees encourages people across the world to walk, run, and cycle the distance that refugees cover every year on their treacherous journey to safety, as a sign of our sympathy for their hardships and solidarity with them. The campaign is joined by local communities, schools, and faith groups in more than 50 cities around the globe, including Seoul (Korea), Bangkok (Thailand), Beirut (Lebanon), and Yerevan (Armenia).

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UNHCR Korea’s Goodwill Ambassador Jung Woo-sung met Rohingya refugees at the Kutupalong refugee camp, one of the world’s largest refugee settlements in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, in May 2019.

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월계관 형상은 UNHCR이 유엔 총회로부터 임무를 부여받은 UN기구임을A laurel wreath symbolizes UNHCR is mandated by the United Nations General Assembly

사람 형상은 난민을 비롯한 UNHCR의 모든 보호대상자를The person symbolizes persons of concern to UNHCR

두 손 형상은 UNHCR의 난민보호 노력과 의지를 상징합니다.Sheltering hands symbolizes UNHCR’s commitment and efforts to protect refugees and persons of concern.

UNHCR(United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 유엔난민고등판무관사무소)

Refugee Protection Campaign

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UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Jung Woo-sung meets refugees around the world 04

Thank You

Your Donation Makes a Difference 10

Thank You

Donor Referral Program 11

UNHCR News Agency/Donation News 14

Learning about Refugees

Children’s Drawing Contest 16

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UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador Jung Woo-sung meets refugees around the world

Jung Woo-sung visited Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee camp, one of the world’s largest refugee settlements, in May 2019. The fresh outbreak of violence against ethnic Rohingya groups in Myanmar’s Rakhine State in August 2017 drove more than 740,000 people out of their homes and forced them to flee over the border to neighboring Bangladesh in search of safety. Including the refugees who have moved to Bangladesh since the 1990s, the total number of refugees at the camp goes well beyond 910,000. On his second visit to the settlement following the first in December 2017, Jung was reunited with some of the refugees who were more than delighted to see him again.

Rohingya refugee story #01

The Zohra family Zohra, a Rohingya refugee woman, met the GWA for the first time about two years ago at a refugee transit center. She now lives at Kutupalong Camp 4 with her two daughters and a granddaughter. She was forced to flee Myanmar with her family after losing her husband and her son to violence. During her first encounter with Jung almost two years ago, she was largely silent, with her eyes telling all too vividly the tale of her suffering.

This time, sitting face-to-face with the Korean guest from nearly two years ago, Zohra smiled at him as he perspired non-stop under the scorching hot weather. She said she also had to take a shower several times a day at the common shower area because of the heat. Her concerns about the future for her daughters and granddaughter were evident even as she bantered about her life at the settlement.

1 A reunion with Rohingya refugee families

Jung Woo-sung, shaking hands with Zohra, a Rohingya refugee woman, in a reunion over one and a half years. Zohra lives with her daughter Khaleda and granddaughter Eisha at the Kutupalong refugee camp.

Kutupalong refugee camp

Korea’s resort island of Jeju had unexpected guests last year: 500 Yemeni refugees, who fled their war-torn country in search of safety. The number may not sound very big, but it was significant enough to spark a nationwide debate on the public attitude toward refugees. Once a relatively invisible issue in Korea, the controversy over refugees has in the past year driven the country to the brink of a major upheaval. At the center of this turmoil is Jung Woo-sung, a Korean movie star and UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador(GWA) dedicated to raising awareness on the

global refugee issue. Since 2014, he has joined UNHCR Korea on journeys to some of the world’s most extensive refugee settlements in Nepal, South Sudan, and Lebanon. Eager to reach out to an even wider audience, he travelled to Djibouti and Malaysia in November 2018 and Bangladesh in 2019 to meet the refugees there. Now an icon of global outreach and relief efforts for refugees, he came back with the stories of some of the refugees he met along the way.

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“I heard Koreans are kind and generous people. Please tell them this when you go back home: None of us left Yemen by choice. We Yemenis share a dream – to go back to our homeland once peace is restored. Until that day comes, I want to study, work, and dream about the future.” - Loza, a Yemeni refugee girl -

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The Nurisha family Jung also had a reunion with Nurisha, a Rohingya woman whom he first met at the transit center in 2017, along with her family. Her two daughters, Morya and Fatima, seemed to have grown up really quickly in the meantime. When she saw the GWA again, an emotional Nurisha almost wept out of gratitude for the guest from a faraway country who returned to visit her. At the time she first met him, she had not been in contact with her husband for more than half a year as she had to flee from Myanmar’s military persecution against her people in August 2017 with no time to spare. Fortunately, her family later made it to the Kutupalong settlement, and they could reunite, thanks to the help from UNHCR. This highlights how crucial UNHCR’s refugee registration program is as it makes it possible for unaccompanied underage refugees to be reunited with their parents and relatives. Nurisha met her husband again, but that did not put an end to her suffering. The violent persecution in Myanmar left him with a serious back injury. She has to make a living for the family, and her two young daughters cannot go to school.

Rohingya refugee story #03

A visit to the UNHCR education center After the reunion with refugee families, the GWA visited the Kutupalong camp’s on-site education center. More than 440,000 Rohingya refugee children in Bangladesh are currently denied access to school education because of the Bangladeshi government policy and the restraints that come with their refugee status. UNHCR is providing them with basic education at this center. Unfortunately, we cannot offer a diploma or other official certificates even on completion of the course – the children educated at this center will have great difficulty pursuing higher education, whether in Bangladesh or Myanmar. Education has always been a crucial issue; for Rohingya refugees, it might be the key to the future of the whole community as well as that of individual children.

① Jung Woosung with Nurisha and her two daughters during a reunion at Nurisha’s place in Bangladesh’s Kutupalong refugee camp.

② Jung Woosung holding a refugee child’s drawing at the education center in the Kutupalong refugee settlement.

③ Jung Woosung and refugees at the education center in the Kutupalong refugee camp.

④ Jung Woosung with Loza (second from right) and her siblings in front of their home in Djibouti’s Markazi refugee camp.

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Yemeni refugee story #01

Loza, a 19-year-old refugee girlLoza, lost her cab driver father during the civil war. Her mother, determined to keep her children out of harm’s way, fled, along with her kids, from the Yemeni capital Sana’a in 2015 to Djibouti’s Markazi refugee settlement. Loza endured some of the most harrowing difficulties that children can possibly experience – losing her father and forced out of her home at a young age. However, she tells us, with a striking aura of serenity, that no sorrow or hardship lasts forever, and that happiness is waiting once the hard times are over.

The small house that Loza shares with her mother and four siblings is filled with books. Driven away from home with no belongings whatsoever, refugee children like Loza gain precious knowledge from books that will help them work toward their dreams. The dire living conditions in Djibouti do not dampen her passion for learning; she is teaching herself English and Norwegian through books. Her bright eyes tell us about her dedication toward studying and achieving her goals.

A journey to Djibouti, a small African country across Yemen

In November last year, prior to the mission to Bangladesh, the GWA visited Djibouti to meet Yemeni refugees. The small East African nation, situated right across Yemen with a population of 970,000, was one of the first transit points for tens of thou-sands of Yemenis as the civil war that began in 2015 drove them away from their homes. Even as one of the poorest countries in the world, it currently hosts nearly 30,000 refugees, includ-ing 4,500 Yemenis who find themselves stuck there for now, with no hope of returning to their homeland in the near future.

Obock, a small port city in northern Djibouti, is character-ized by very poor living conditions, with temperatures reaching well beyond 50°C in summer. As the city became too crowded with refugees and conditions deteriorated, the government tried to move the refugee settlement to other places. However, the residents welcomed the refugees into their community, generously sharing what little resources they had with these people forced out of their homeland. Jung Woo-sung visited Obock’s Markazi refugee camp to meet the Yemenis there.

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GWA’s comment: “Refugees are just like us”Jung Woo-sung, the UNHCR GWA, can recall vivid memories of all refugees he met during his UNHCR missions: “Refugees are not deprived or poor weaklings. They are just like us. They once led a normal life in a country of their own.” He also spoke about his experience with the Rohingyas in Bangladesh at a press conference at the UNHCR Korea office on May 28. “Let’s look back into our own history. We Koreans once had great hardship as refugees, too. The help from the UN and other countries were the only thing we could rely on.” He also emphasized a more globalized outlook: “When Koreans say ‘we,’ it often means Koreans, but it can also refer to something wider - humanity in general. The global refugee crisis is our issue. We should find ways to co-exist and show solidarity with refugees.”

Refugees are just like us. They once had an ordinary life, and their foremost dream is to go back to their home country once peace is restored. We cannot prevent conflicts, but we can protect and support those forced out of their homes due to conflicts and civil war. Join us and our GWA now in our endeavors to protect refugees.

*The story of GWA Jung Woo-sung’s visit to the Rohingya refugee camp is based on the reporting by Korean daily Chosun Ilbo, and that of his visits to Djibouti and Malaysia is based on the Kyunghyang Shinmun.

(Source) http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=201811262242015&code=970100 (Kyunghyang Shinmun) http://news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2019/05/27/2019052701928.html (Chosun Ilbo)

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Life as a refugee in Malaysia: Abdulsalam and his family

Abdulsalam and his family of six left Yemen to live as urban refugees in Kuala Lumpur, the Malaysian capital. They fled their home when their neighborhood fell into the hands of the Houthi rebels, a Shia Islamic insurgent group, and barely made it to safety across the Yemeni-Saudi border, only to be deported by Saudi authorities after just 10 days there. Abdulsalam wanted to go to Egypt because he had studied there, but he learned that it would take 21 days to get an Egyptian visa. This dilemma left him with the only alternative option, where, as far as he knew, he could get a visa after arrival - Malaysia. He is enduring tough living conditions in Malaysia, working as a translator to cover the rent for his family’s place, living expenses, and his children’s education. He receives support from UNHCR and the local Yemeni communities for healthcare and education.

The Goodwill Ambassador’s next destination in his itinerary cover-ing Yemeni refugees’ harrowing journey last November was Malay-sia. The Southeast Asian country is neither a party to the 1951 Refugee Convention nor does it have its own laws on refugees; the refugees are issued a UNHCR card after going through its review process upon their arrival in Malaysia. Its government does not

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“My country, Yemen, is falling to pieces. Nobody can go back there now. It is human nature to help those in difficulty. If Koreans are in danger, we will definitely help them, too.” - Abdulsalam, a Yemeni refugee -

recognize anyone as refugees, at least not officially. However, the country is still home to some 162,000 refugees of various nation-alities, all enjoying de-facto social acceptance as long as they have the UNHCR card.

Violent persecution against ethnic Rohingyas in 2017 drove more than

910,000 people away from their land in search of safety.

The Rohingyas are a Stateless ethnic group, subjected to

persecution and violence in Myanmar.

Women and children make up 75% of Rohingya refugees; 16% of

households are female-headed.

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One of the world’s poorest countries where over 22 million

people, or 76% of the population, are facing disastrous food

shortages, which can be dubbed as “pre-famine conditions,” and require

humanitarian assistance.

More than 230,000 displaced Yemenis are looking for shelter

inside the country or in neighboring States.

Epidemics have been recorded, including cholera and diarrhea.

Jung Woo-sung, the UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, speaking to Abdulsalam (second from left) and his family. They live in an urban area in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, as Yemeni refugees.

(Top) Jung Woo-sung is having a conversation with Fawaz, a Yemeni refugee, during a stroll in the Markazi refugee camp in Obock, Djibouti.(Bottom) Fawaz, a Yemeni refugee father, and his family in Djibouti’s Markazi refugee camp. He and his family left Yemen in 2015.

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Yemeni refugee story #02

Fawaz, a Yemeni father of threeFawaz came to Djibouti’s Markazi refugee camp with his wife and three children after surviving two deadly situations by sheer luck. He could just stand it no more; he witnessed a parked car exploding right in front of his eyes. Children could die like this, at any time, for no reason. He packed up and set off the next day.

Fawaz is now teaching English at a high school in the Markazi camp. Confined within a narrow, crowded place without access to good medical care, he feels anxious about the diseases that can strike his community at any time as well as their uncertain future, but, at least, Yemenis here do not have to fear for their lives all the time. Fawaz thanked the Djibouti government for accepting him and his people, and called for more international attention and support to address the difficulties facing their host country.

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Your Donation Makes a Difference

Your generous support allows us to protect and support refugees around the globe. Here are some of the positive impacts that your donation has brought about.(Updates based on UNHCR operations in April-June 2019)

Rohingya refugee workshop, the vanguard of refugee children’s mental healthUNHCR runs a mental health workshop program in Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugee camp to help children overcome their past trauma and lead a healthy life. More than 900,000 Rohingya people are taking shelter in Bangladesh; children make up more than half of them. They have mostly suppressed negative emotions, such as fear, sorrow, and anger, after having encountered horrendous violence and being forced to flee their homes. This workshop, eligible for children aged 10-16, encourages participants to talk about various issues and express their emotions. Refugee children learn through this program that it is very natural to seek help for mental suffering. At the same time, they acquire valuable socio-psychological skills and learn about effective response mechanisms that will enable them to better overcome rage and sorrow in their everyday lives as well as past traumas.

BangladeshWe issued documentation to more than 250,000 Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh. The Rohingyas have long endured hardship as a Stateless people in Myanmar.

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and support to more than four million

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Fifteen countries including MalaysiaIn a strategic partnership with the Education Above All Foundation (EAA), UNHCR helped 450,000 refugee and internally displaced children enroll in school and receive education in 15 countries around the globe, including Malaysia.

Mozambique, Zimbabwe, and Malawi

We evacuated residents in areas affected by Cyclone

Kenneth, delivered relief goods to more

than 35,000 people via four cargo aircraft, and provided vaccination in

affected areas to prevent disease outbreaks.

Mali We launched water supply

and irrigation projects in Mali, ravaged by civil war,

to help returning refugees farm their land and make

a living. Yemen-SomaliaOur Assisted Spontaneous Return (ASR) program allowed Somalian refugees in Yemen, who make up 90% of the refugee population there, to return to their home country. Some 4,300 Somalis have returned since 2017

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“Awake at Night” UNHCR launched the second season of its podcast series “Awake at Night” this May. Hosted by Melissa Fleming,

UNHCR’s Head of Global Communications, it features firsthand accounts of UNHCR aid professionals of their unique experiences on the ground and their life stories.

“They [the conversations with refugees] reveal the triumph of humanity amid some of the darkest moments in recent history.” -Melissa Fleming-

*Podcast available at: unhcr.org/awakeatnight

Venice Biennale features exhibition on refugees The 58th Venice Biennale, a biannual international contemporary art

exhibition in Italy, began this May. One of the artworks on display lays bare the treacherous reality of sea voyages that refugees must endure to reach safety - the wreckage of a migrant boat, which sank with some 800 refugees and migrants on board during a cross-Mediterranean journey in 2015. The art festival is accompanied by an independently organized special exhibition Rothko in Lampedusa, featuring the works of refugee artists from Syria, Iran, Iraq, Ivory Coast, and Somalia, along with those of internationally acclaimed artists such as Ai Weiwei. Mark Rothko moved to the United States to flee persecution in today’s Latvia (then part of the Russian Empire) before becoming one of the most famous artists of the 20th century. Lampedusa, a small Italian island between Sicily and Tunisia, has been a key reception point for refugees who choose a seaborne route. The Venice Biennale, along with its exhibitions on the refugee issue, is set to continue through November.

UNHCR Special Envoy Angelina Jolie speaks on Venezuelan refugee crisisUNHCR special envoy Angelina Jolie called for

more attention toward the Venezuelan refugee crisis and support for the displaced people on her visit to Columbia early this June. In a statement, she emphasized that millions of Venezuelans are facing a “life and death situation,” and that “[t]oday we need […] humanity more than ever, and rational thinking from people who are unafraid to take responsibility and show leadership.” As of June 2019, more than four million Venezuelans were seeking shelter in neighboring States as their country is crumbling under waves of violence, social and political unrest, and economic hardship, accompanied by shortages of food and medicines.

Fans of Highlight’s Son Dong-woon donate to UNHCR to celebrate their idol’s birthdayHIGHLIGHT’S INTERNATIONAL FANS ALWAYS AROUND, a global fan club of Korean boy band Highlight, donated 629,000 Korean won to UNHCR to celebrate band member Son Dong-woon’s birthday. The proceeds will be directed to emergency relief operations in Syria. Many thanks to the fans for their meaningful contribution!

We would like to thank the below-mentioned donors for their valuable contributions:Moojuk School / Chungpoong Oriental Clinic / Hongsung Girls’ High School (Class 6, Year 3) / Good & Well Internal Medicine and Pediatric Clinic / Yeongnak Grace Choir / Cheongnyong Public Daycare Center / Gunsan Yeong-Gwang Girls’ High School (Class 1, Year 1) / Yangsan Seochong Church Youth Group / Jinjeop Elementary School (Year 5) / pm07 Training Team, Saecheonnyeon Swimming Pool / Jihaeng Elementary School (2019 Ivy Class, Year 5)

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UNHCR holds 2nd policy meeting with Korean governmentUNHCR held a 2nd consultation meeting on refugee policies with Korean government delegates in Geneva, Switzerland, on May 2. The two sides have been advancing their strategic partnership since the 1st bilateral consultation in 2016. This year’s meeting was joined by Kweon Ki-hwan, Director-General for International Organizations at Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Kelly Clements, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Refugees, as heads of their respective delegations. At the meeting, the two sides exchanged views on the global refugee crisis and UNHCR’s response, possible measures for the Korean government to contribute to the global endeavor to address this issue through UNHCR, and implementation of the Global Compact on Refugees. Both sides agreed to hold the consultation on a regular basis.

UNHCR co-hosts 5th refugee film festivalUNHCR co-hosted the 5th Korea Refugee Film Festival with the Korea Refugee Rights Network at Seoul Cinema in central Seoul on June 15. This year’s festival, with the theme I HEAR YOU, featured Resistance is Life, the story of an eight-year-old Syrian girl named Evlin who characterizes the resistance of her homeland, and Welcome to Germany, which follows Nigerian refugee Diallo’s story as he moves into a German family home to live with them and encounters various challenges, including racism from neighbors. Three documentaries (Sanctuary, The Unforgotten, and Limbo) covered the firsthand accounts of Jung Woo-sung, the UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, of his experience in refugee-affected areas across the world. The festival was accompanied by a host of additional events, including a hands-on art event with refugees, a global-themed café, an open-mic session, and cultural performances.

UNHCR joins 2019 Seoul International Book Fair UNHCR joined the 2019 Seoul International Book Fair on June 19-23 at COEX Convention Center in southern Seoul. A special session held on the sidelines of this fair on June 20, titled Refugees: Our New Neighbors, featured Jung Woo-sung, the UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador, who shared his experience with refugees so far. He also unveiled his new book If You Could See What I Have Seen for the first time. It is a compilation of his activities as Goodwill Ambassador that span from his visit to Nepal in November 2014 to his mission to Djibouti and Malaysia in November 2018. Proceeds from the sales of this book will be donated for the protection of refugees around the globe.

UNHCR launches awareness-raising campaigns on refugees at premium outletsUNHCR ran a relay campaign on the global refugee issue at Shinsegae Simon’s Siheung, Yeoju, and Paju Premium Outlets every weekend from May 18 to June 23. The awareness-raising event featured high-striker games that offered a fun-filled learning experience about refugee camps, as well as virtual reality and emergency relief sections that promised shoppers a look at life at refugee settlements. A special busking event, in commemoration of World Refugee Day, further spiced up the fun atmosphere of the campaign. UNHCR expresses its gratitude to Shinsegae Simon Inc. for their proactive support of this campaign.

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UNHCR joins two peace-themed international forums

UNHCR took part in the 2019 Korean Peninsula Peace-Sharing Forum, a peace-themed Catholic forum

held May 18 under the theme Culture of Peace and Korea’s Path. European Catholic leaders from Germany, Poland, and Hungary came together with experts from Korean organizations and civic groups to discuss issues of reconciliation and healing, acceptance and co-existence, and conflict and peace with a view to achieving peace on the Korean Peninsula. In his presentation, Frank Remus, interim head of UNHCR Korea, highlighted the need for understanding and accepting refugees, and sympathizing with them. The event, which commemorates its 4th anniversary this year, was hosted by the National Reconciliation Committee of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Seoul and organized by the committee’s Peace-Sharing Research Institute.

The UNHCR Korea chief also attended the 2019 Jeju Forum as a speaker on May 30, where he encouraged far-reaching efforts toward creating a culture of understanding, rather than fear, for refugees. He spoke at a session titled Asia Towards a Society for Integration and Inclusion: Beyond Hatred and Discrimination, organized by the ASEM Global Ageing Center and hosted by the National Human Rights Commission of Korea.

UNHCR joins Good Neighbors’ international development forum

UNHCR took part in the 2nd Good Neighbors(GN) International Development and Cooperation Forum on June 11. Held

under the theme Refugees and Development: Challenges to Implementing the Comprehensive Refugee Response Framework, the event brought participants from the government and civil society sectors together to explore ways to promote cooperation. Frank Remus, interim head of UNHCR Korea, delivered a keynote speech on the major elements of the framework and Korea’s implementation of a society-wide approach. GN, the organizer of the forum, is a global humanitarian and development NGO.

UNHCR joins diaspora film festival

UNHCR joined the 7th Diaspora Film Festival at Incheon Art Platform on May 24-28. This year’s festival, held under the slogan “Interwoven,” featured 64 movies from 30 countries. There were three documentaries sponsored by UNHCR, titled Hope, Passion, and Family, that followed the experiences of Yemeni asylum-seekers who came to Korea last year. Frank Ramus, interim head of UNHCR Korea, expressed his faith in the event participants in his opening remarks: “I feel convinced that every one of you will become active advocates of refugees through this festival.” UNHCR’s virtual reality experience session at its booth in the festival venue also proved popular among the guests.

UNHCR launches “2 Billion Kilometers to Safety” campaign

Refugees walk about two billion kilometers every year to flee the conflict and persecution in their homeland and reach safety. This year, UNHCR unveiled the “2 Billion Kilometers to Safety” campaign, designed to promote a culture of understanding and solidarity that can empower refugees, while offering them protection and helping them rebuild their lives. The digital campaign aims to cover two billion kilometers, the distance that refugees endure every year on their journey to safety, by asking participants across the globe to log the distances they walk or run using their fitness apps or the campaign web page. Further details of this campaign are available through the QR code given above.

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Eligibility Elementary school children under grade 6 · You can participate if you are a UNHCR donor or a member of a donor’s family.

Theme Please draw a picture of ‘the future you want to gift to a refugee child through your donations’

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