I’d like to recommend a new book, “Learning America: one woman’s fight for educational justice for refugee children“, by Luma Mufleh. So many anecdotes ring true to what my wife has experienced just trying to help a few african bahá’í families who’ve been resettled in Tucson. Not that she started her own school like Luma did, although I make a few jokes about doing that.
Luma also did a TED talk, “Don’t be sorry for refugees, believe in them“.
The son of one of the Tucson bahá’ís I know helped resettle a few Ukrainian refugees in Prague, who I’m sure never expected to find themselves leaving their home, until they had to. A quick google returns “According to the UNHCR, over 84 million people around the world have been forced to flee their homes” (random search result). As the pace of global destructive and constructive changes picks up, or if Tucson gets any hotter or drier, some of us might join the ranks.