ECONOMIC EMPOWERMENT

Creating income for refugees through employment and using our platform to sell t-shirts, art and poetry they create

MENTORSHIPS & WORKSHOPS

Offer free skill and professional development workshops to displaced people including resume writing, digital literacy & asylum / legal rights trainings 

DIALOGUE & VIRTUAL EXCHANGES 

Confront misconceptions through radically honest dialogue sessions
 

Classroom exchanges with college & high school students 

ADVOCACY

We provide updated information on policies that affect the lives of refugees & asylum seekers and create easy ways for people to get involved for progressive change 

AWS JUBAIR

CO - DIRECTOR

From Baghdad, Iraq, Aws Jubair is a refugee activist, humanitarian worker and filmmaker who lives in Turkey. His passion is to support and advocate for refugees and LGBTQ issues in the MENA region. Aws also manages 2 other projects, The Aman Project and United Hands for Refugees.

JOSIE YGNATOWIZ

CO-DIRECTOR

Josie is an educator, connector, activist and multimedia artist living in the magical place of New Orleans. She has worked in refugee resettlement with the IRC and is a recipient of the FLAS and CLS scholarships that allowed her to travel, work and live in the Middle East. She is passionate about dismantling white supremacism and deconstructing colonially imposed borders.