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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Her survival defies insurmountable odds. How did 15 year-old Mydung survive five days on the ocean with no food and water? How did she survive the boat capsizing at night? Or living on beans and plant leaves in a refugee camp for nine long months?

Yet, Mydung almost didn’t survive the move to Seattle . New faces, strange food and a new language drove her into isolation.

“What’s was point of going on? I didn’t want to live.”

That’s what she said to Linda, the woman who had taught her English. Linda looked into Mydung’s eyes and said,

“I love you. God knows your every need you have.”

Mydung believed – and began a new life journey. Today, as a case worker with World Relief Seattle, she looks into the eyes of new refugees. Mydung offers them a bridge beyond fear, a bridge she has walked by faith and knows by heart:

“No hardship is too hard for God.”

The work of World Relief Seattle is to provide new beginnings for refugee families.

World Relief, along with our team of volunteers and donors, helped over 600 refugees begin new lives last year in the Puget Sound.

As a World Relief case worker, Mydung, right, can look a new refugee in the eyes and offer hope.