Union-Tribune writer John Wilkens discusses his feature story about Kenton Stacy, a Navy bomb technician grievously injured by an IED in Syria and how his family is leaning on the community and each other as they try to recover.Read the story:https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/military/story/2019-06-27/bomb-squad-syria-kenton-stacy…

Partnering with the National Conflict Resolution Center, the San Diego Union-Tribune held a forum Wednesday night about how to confront hate. Religious leaders from communities attacked by hate — Charlottesville, Charleston, Oak Creek and Poway -- discussed how they chose to respond to hate, bigotry and ignorance.…

The San Diego Union-Tribune sent reporter Sandra Dibble and photographer Nel Cepeda to Guatemala to see the next migrant caravan depart north. Listen to immigration and enterprise editor Mark Platte interview Dibble and Cepeda about their trip and what it means for San Diego.Read the story: http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/migrant-caravan/s…

Talking about the potential government shutdown over border control.

Brief discussion about code switching and the migrant caravan

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Today we will talk about the Migrant Caravan and Asylum Seekers

Taking a break from politics today. In this episode we are wondering should you or should you not stay in the “hood” once you are older?

Journalist and photographer Sean Hawkey has just returned from one month with the Honduran 'Migrant Caravan'. This is a moving, intimate account of travelling with people who had no choice other than to take huge risks migrating north. With detailed, first hand knowledge of Honduras and the Honduran people, Sean talks about what has driven these pe…

A recap of the incident that happened last week between several CNN reporters/journalists and the President.

Samira Harnish founded Women of the World and her work was recognised by the UNHCR when she won the Nansen Award for the Americas this year. She helps displaced women to become self-reliant. They offer an individual customised service for every woman to help them deal with different government bodies, to get into work and to help with practical Eng…

A discussion of yesterday’s (Nov 6) elections. The laws/reforms and candidates who won.

Today’s topics were about the impacts of police brutality and the importance of voting in the midterm election November 6th. And we have a guest!!

Discussing two people, Kanye West and Brett Kavanaugh.

Mohammed Nour talks movingly to co-founder John about his journey from the tragedy of Aleppo, dealing with smugglers to get into Greece with his family, being stuck in a camp for nearly 2 years until finally getting a chance to realise his dreams in Switzerland. We met Mohammed Nour, now aged 22, and his inspirational family in Alexandreia camp in …

In this week's special podcast, we follow up with writer Dina Nayeri after her visit to two of the camps where we work. She wrote movingly about her visit in the Guardian. As a child refugee herself, there were many parallels with her childhood experience, and it came with many bitter-sweet moments. Dina and Paul talk about the humanity that shines…

Joy Stacey of Brighton-based Silat Network is setting up a service to offer training and mentoring to students in refugee communities so that they can access universtiy education abroad. There are plenty of scholarships and university places available but how to find these, how to apply and how to be successful is not well known outside of the UK a…

One of our trustees, Rana, talks about the people she is helping us to support with our new Business Fund for refugees at Katsikas camp. The Business Fund is the next step in our model to bring dignity and normality to people stuck in refugee camps. It has been an inspiring weekend and a huge privilege to help people with their plans to improve the…

Over the last 2 years in Cameroon, conflict between the Franch speaking government forces and the English speaking separatist movement has led to huge numbers of internally displaced people and refugees fleeing to Nigeria. We talk to activist Nkengafrica Ernest, Constituent President of the Cameroon National Youth Council and of the African Patriot…

On our recent tour to the US we spoke at a United Tastes of America event in Montclair NJ and were inspired by what the two founders - Melina and Kate - have achieved by bringing people together over food. Their motto is something we'd love to see more of right now: Breaking Bread, Building Bridges. In this podcast we speak to founder Melina Macall…

Today is the final date in our US tour speaking to supporters about what is possible when people help people and what the latest situation is facing refugees in Europe right now. This talk is by Paul speaking at the Bnai Keshet Synagogue in Montclair New Jersey, at the invitation of Melina of the United Tastes of America. She will be talking on nex…

Sharon started helping refugees on the Balkan route in 2015 with emergency support, but got frustrated with the duplication and the waste. It was clear to her that what refugees really needed was reliable and timely information about their legal rights and the asylum process. And so she created Refucomm and that's when her journey began to get grea…

Christa came to Greece in 2015 to do what she could for refugees, like so many of us after seeing the body of Alan Kurdi washed up on a Turkish shore. She has made several humanitarian trips to Greece with our friends Carry the Future and Allied Aid. We were also lucky to her along as one of our walkers retracing the refugee route this month before…

We worked closely with our good friend Zoe when she was the UNHCR Officer at Alexandreia refugee camp but she was supporting refugees as a volunteer 18 months before that. She was part of the very first response at Idomeni. As 19 Refugee Support volunteers begin their week long walk to re-trace the refugee route from Idomeni to Skopje, Zoe talks ab…

With borders closing across Europe, refugees arriving were getting trapped in the southern states of Greece and Italy. The political solution to this was the EU statement of 20 March 2016 to slow the arrival of refugees from Turkey. Two years on we discuss this statement, often referred to as the EU-Turkey deal, with Claudia Bonamini, Policy and Ad…

Ingrid started supporting refugees in the Calais jungle in 2015 and went on to do much more, now hosting 4 refugees in her own home. Giving refugees a place to stay is obviously important but it also means they get essential support to access all local services and integrate into their new country. It can be hard work and you need to find the right…

The Sanctuary organisation is a national volunteer movement devoted to offering a welcome and safety for people fleeing violence and persecution. In Brighton, that is the very active Sanctuary on Sea, chaired by Richard Williams, where they: - Focus on creating welcoming environments in school - Find accommodation for refugees coming under the Syri…

Bea Shrewsbury volunteered on a camp last year and it changed her life. She's now a trustee, serial volunteer and champion fundraiser. Her inspirational mother came to England as part of the kindertransport from Germany just before WWII and Bea wrote about that here and what a great thing that was. With Help Refugees once again taking the UK govt t…

Tracey Samuel runs bonniemob, a Brighton-based family business that designs and sells kids clothes around the world. Upset at the plight of the refugees in 2016 and keen to do something she decided to help Refugee Support by doing what she does best - designing and selling clothes. Working with Selfish Mother, she created a charity collection that …

In 2015, Ros was working in TV and volunteering at her Synagogue's refugee support group, when the facebook event she set up quickly became a huge demonstration with 100,000 people. From there, Solidarity with Refugees was born which Ros now leads. This is an inspirational story about what happen both personally and nationally when something you or…

Tasha has created an online marketplace that brings together humanitarian organisations who list what they want in real time and donors who want to help by buying a thing is needed. NeedsList has only been going for about a year and already met over 30,000 needs in 10 countries. Displaced people have urgent needs and those can change quickly. A new…

Jack went to Calais for a month in 2015 and ended up staying for a year. He was central to the hugely ambitious shelter building project only to see it all bulldozed and burnt down. He's now Head of Community Development at our great friend and supporter Help Refugees creating a portal for refugees after they have arrived in the UK. As we talked ab…

Brighton-based Steve started Refugee Radio 10 years to create an arts programme with refugees but it quickly morphed into a mental health support service. Steve talks about this critical servce, but also in the context of the last decade working with refugees and the UK bureaucracy. Although the UK and Europe are still reluctant to resettle and sup…

Meerfez is 25 and lives in Filippiada camp with his wife. Left with no choice and under tragic circumstances, he left Afghanistan in 2015 and is trying to reach his brother in Germany. With great calm and dignity, Meerfez describes an epic journey but frustration at being held in Greece while his brother, who is just 17, is struggling in Germany on…

Austin is aged 20 from the USA and Sue is 68 from the UK, but they are both united by a desire to put others first. They are fantastic volunteers who have given up their time and energy to help refugees in Greece and do the important job of co-ordinating our other volunteers' activities on the camps. They talk about what motivated them to come and …

Mimi started helping refugees in Europe two years ago and in that time she and her organisation Soup & Socks have had to adapt and change what they do. They started with a community kitchen on camp that got shut down by the army so they evolved their project into something more sustainable. This is where Habibi Works was born. We think it is the be…

Dina Nayeri had to leave Iran as a refugee at the age obf 8 and first stayed in a reception centre in Italy before going on to have a successful international academic and literary career. In April 2017, she wrote a brilliant and insightful artcile for the Guardian called The ungrateful refugee which was read widely. Dina says that host countries e…

We met Vickie at this year's Meaning Conference talking about Medecins sans Frontieres' guiding principles of neutrality, impartiality and independence. MSF have a long history working in the most difficult circumstance and having to make difficult choices. Vickie talks about how these principles and medical ethics help with many of the difficult d…

John has been following the plight of the Rohingya for some years and when there was yet another exodus in August this year he became very keen to help. In September we were lucky to meet a team of experienced people who wanted to join us and he has just returned from 2 weeks in Bangladesh getting us started. We talk candidly about how you go about…

Abdul-Salam's family had to escape from Deir ez-Zur after ISIL laid seige to it and made life impossible. He describes what that was like and the perilous, life-threatening journey they made. Despite these horrors, this family is still cheerful, optimistic and proud. Their resilience is inspirational. “Our request is not impossible. We want medical…

John Sloan talks to Daniel about his journey into humanitarian work from Nepal to Afghanistan to Greece to Bangladesh. It is in the genes and he started young! Daniel is pivotal to our work supporting the Rohingya in Bangladesh so talks about why aid with dignity and co-operation is so important. We also learn about the importance of holding your h…