From a Syrian refugee girl racing in the Olympics to a diplomat saving a young Afghan woman’s pet bird, 2021 had some positive refugee stories
Yusra Mardini, a young refugee who swam for her life to steer a sinking refugee boat in the open sea,The young woman was being trained by her father to become a professional swimmer before fleeing Syria in 2015 at the age of 17 due to the war.
Pastor Marten has learned the Persian language to improve communication while also providing sanctuary to thousands in the past 15 years. He holds mass baptismal ceremonies after testing people’s faith, ensuring they truly desire to become Christians. “We always felt like there was an awful lot of goodwill in the community, people who wanted to befriend refugees but didn’t really know how,” founder Anneke Elwes told the paper, adding that the charity is still recruiting befrienders in north-east England.
by the Guardian in August. Another 824 people offered up their spare rooms to Afghans via another charity, Refugees at Home, only in two weeks, the report said.When American troops withdrew from Afghanistan and the Taliban took over the country this summer, one heartwarming story stood out among reports of chaos amid the crisis. the story of how a pet bird connected him to an Afghan refugee girl he called “Alia”, who was getting ready to be resettled in France.
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