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

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

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

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

For 68 mostly Muslim refugees, a Christmas party featured the story of Jesus, and a new pair of winter mittens for all.
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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 loves her job preparing dozens of hopeful, but anxious, refugees for their American Citizenship test. |

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 is a World Relief case worker who almost didn't survive her own journey to Seattle.
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Ida lived through 12 years of gun fire, bombs and total terror during civil war in Liberia. |

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