Arriving in Nigeria as a penniless refugee with a six-month-old infant strapped to her chest, Yvonne faced the immediate, terrifying reality of starting from absolute zero. With her home back in…
After earning her nursing degree and starting a new life working in Thailand, 26-year-old Yvonne believed she was stepping into a chapter of security and freedom. But when personal choices, cultural…
Before she became a humanitarian and a refugee in Nigeria, Yvonne was a young girl growing up in Kuke Mbomo, Cameroon, in a family where caring for others was simply part of everyday life.In this…
"Every single day is a battle to survive."Madeleine is a Congolese refugee and single mother living in the Nakivale Refugee Settlement in Uganda, where she is raising three boys on her own. In this…
Madeleine walked by foot from Goma to the Settlement in Uganda…In Part 2 of Madeleine's oral history, a Congolese refugee currently living in Uganda recounts the night armed men attacked her village…
She believed that marriage was her only way out…Madeleine is a Congolese refugee currently living in Uganda. In this first chapter of her oral history, she takes us back to her childhood in South…
What makes someone a mother?In the final chapter of Merveille’s oral history, she reflects on the years she spent raising her daughter while completing her education, working as a teacher, and…
What does it mean to grow up in a place where conflict never fully leaves?In Part 1 of Marie’s oral history, we meet her as a daughter of eastern Congo—born in Masisi, raised between Bukavu and Goma,…
What does life look like when displacement stretches into years?In the final chapter of Kolima’s oral history, we hear from her as she lives now — inside the Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh. Her…
What does it mean to learn survival before you have words for it?In the first chapter of Kolima’s oral history, we meet a Rohingya woman whose early life was shaped by family, restraint, and the quiet…
