by Photos by Milene | Oct 17, 2020 | Refugee Stories
Can you imagine what it would be like to live in constant fear? For over 65 million people around the world, that’s their reality. Wars orchestrated by shadowy faces in distant rooms explode into destructive reality on city streets. Death and disaster walk hand in...
by Photos by Milene | Sep 23, 2020 | Refugee Stories
Screams. The distant sound of crackling flames. Acrid smoke crawling through the night, twisting down your throat and burning your lungs. This was the terror you ran from. The nightmare that still wakes you in the darkness, leaving you gasping for breath. Like so...
by Photos by Milene | Sep 21, 2020 | Refugee Stories
She was only four months old when her father, mother and three brother left the house in the middle of the night. Her mother carried her into a car and they headed to the border with Turkey. At the border they left the car behind. Her brothers, father and mother...
by Photos by Milene | Sep 21, 2020 | Refugee Stories
Back in 2015, the so-called “European Refugee Crisis” made headlines. More than a million displaced people crossed into the European Union that year, with over 1.3 million claiming asylum. Frontex, the EU’s external border force, actually put that figure at over 1.8...
