“Refugee Stories” By Allison Pinski

Humans of New York (HONY) just released another series of photographs about refugees traveling through Europe from Syria and Iraq.

Their first post in the series starts off with this;

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I love when Brandon Stanton, the creative mind behind HONY, spotlights certain groups of people or events. In this case, he interviews refugees from the Middle East who are now in Greece. Many of these people (some with their families) left their homes because of ISIS or escalated violence in the region (some of which is from the U.S.).
Stanton has truly outdone himself with this series. It is heart-wrenching and personal, and gives a very small look into the lives of refugees and the challenges they face. I could never imagine going through half of the obstacles these people have been through.
It is easy to say you don’t support these refugees coming into Europe and the U.S., but I hope many people are swayed by Stanton’s insightful new series of interviews and photographs. These are people who have been through tragedy and trauma, who need our support. I hope that anyone reading this who was once against helping these Syrian and Iraqi refugees will reconsider their positions.
You can read some of the series below, and the rest are linked via their location from HONY’s website.

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These are all of the stories from HONY’s Facebook page as of September 30th. To read the rest, I suggest reading HONY’s blog or checking out their Facebook. The remainder of the series is linked here in chronological order by location; Kos, Lesvos, Lesvos (Part 1  and 2), Lesvos, Lesvos, Lesvos, Tovarnik, Hegyeshalom, Vienna, Vienna, Hegyeshalom (Part 1, and 2, and 3), Salzburg, and Salzburg.

To conclude the series, HONY posted the following message from here;

I hope these stories helped change your mind about the status and perceptions on refugees. If you are interested in becoming more involved with the cause, I suggest looking into these organizations and donating to the United Nations work with these refugees. You can also donate to the UN through here.

NOTE: All images in this post were taken from Humans of New York’s website or Facebook page. We have no intention of stealing or unlawfully claiming any of HONY’s work, we only mean to share this important series and encourage donation.