Stories of Transformed Lives

World Relief Seattle helps displaced people start a new life in the Pacific Northwest. These are some of their stories, and the stories of volunteers who have made a difference.

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Mohammed

Mohammed and his dad moved to the Seattle area from a refugee camp, but his mother and sisters were left behind.

Bruce & Karleen Kennedy

Hone remembers Bruce Kennedy, the humble, unassuming Chairman Emeritus of Alaska Airlines who died in June.

Sharif

Sharif “is happy, speaking a lot of English and making friends” in Kindergarten. His parents had fled for their lives.

Lloyd Evans

Hardly a week goes by that Lloyd Evans doesn’t help refugee families furnish their apartments. “This is a thrill for me," he says.

Refugee shows off a new pair of mittens

For 68 mostly Muslim refugees, a Christmas party featured the story of Jesus, and a new pair of winter mittens for all.

 

Somali refugee sisters

Moving day was quite a chore for a Somali family of 14 and the volunteers who helped them with all of their earthly possessions.

Maxine

Maxine loves her job preparing dozens of hopeful, but anxious, refugees for their American Citizenship test.

Amanuel

Amanuel fled war-torn Eritrea only to be locked up in a squalid Saudi prison cell? But that wasn't the end of the story.

Mydung

Mydung is a World Relief case worker who almost didn't survive her own journey to Seattle.

 

Amber and Ida

Ida lived through 12 years of gun fire, bombs and total terror during civil war in Liberia.

Jan and Khalida

Khalida is a Meskhetian Turk who knew what type of work she wanted. It was an aspiration that had little hope of coming true.

Dzhavad

Dzhavad boarded a plane in Russia, fleeing generations of persecution encountered by his ethnic group.