I've seen mothers and children really being vulnerable in the refugee camps; it's supposed to be temporary, but they end up having children who have grown up in refugee camps.
I had jobs from the age of 14, when I arrived in London as a refugee. Aged 17, I'd get up at 4 A.M. to work as a cleaner before school. It wasn't pleasant.
I feel, in 2015, when we see human beings and children dying to cross the ocean, trying to find safety, something more must be done to help them because refugees are just like me and you.
My experience as a refugee had made me strong; I could survive anything, even the world of fashion.
My commitment to refugees comes from a very personal place.
I am so impressed by UNHCR staff who live and work side by side with the refugees. It's really remarkable.
I believe we should utilise any power we have for important issues that are bigger and beyond us. Whether it's with refugees or working to educate kids. I don't think you need to have gone through a civil war to do something. I believe as human beings, we can look out for each other.
Sharon Shinn's Samaria is a world populated by refugees from a ravaged Earth, also many, many years in the future.
On my father's side, I'm descended from immigrants, one of whom was a Syrian refugee from the Armenian genocide, and my mother was an immigrant from Germany whose visa had expired and, for a year and change, was undocumented here in the U.S.
My father was from East Bengal. Having lost everything to the Partition, he came as a refugee.
