Investing in People, Not Projects: A look at UNHCR’s experimental funding

Six steps for adapting your design solutions to the right context

A poem about refugees you need to read

In the wake of the November 2015 Paris attacks, a wave of anti-refugee sentiment crossed the Atlantic, with over half of U.S. governors declaring that they would bar Syrian refugees from settling in their states. Poet Jason Defo Fotso, then eighteen years old…

Set up a system to manage two-way SMS in two minutes

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New App Tells Refugees In Israel, ‘We See You’

It was something Natalia Nahra had noticed at every turn of her career. When people had trouble accessing good information, they struggled to make the best choices. It was true in the United States where she had practiced law; average employees…

10 things to consider before rolling out two-way SMS

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Integrating storytelling as a tool for healing and community building

It started like this: a small, white video camera; two Syrian youth facilitators; and twenty-five Syrian youth in the Zaatari refugee camp in 2014. Now, three years later, #MeWeSyria is a team of more than 50…

Refugees are not the crisis. It’s the narratives we tell about them.

Don’t start with a boat. Don’t show it lurching on the waves, a crush of terrified people packed elbow to ribcage, a baby crying. Don’t focus on their past: the homes they left, the loved ones lost, the bribes…

How Paris is supporting refugee integration through an innovative food festival