#refugees

🇯🇴 Jordan · 7Hills Skatepark

Jordan's first skatepark has become downtown Amman's melting pot, where Syrian, Iraqi, and Yemeni refugee kids skate side-by-side with local Jordanians.

🇰🇪 Kenya · FRADI (Fraternity for Development Integrated)

A Congolese refugee who arrived in Kakuma with nothing built the camp's largest plastic recycling enterprise, turning waste into jobs.

🇹🇩 Chad · FairClimateFund

Dutch climate NGO FairClimateFund and local partner ADES supply women-assembled solar cookers to Sudanese refugee camps in eastern Chad, cutting firewood collection and CO2 emissions.

🇬🇷 Greece · Free Movement Skateboarding

In Athens, a skate charity gives displaced children from dozens of countries a shared board and a rare say over their own bodies and choices.

🇧🇩 Bangladesh · GarbageMan

A Bangladeshi social enterprise partnered with Cordaid, WFP and the Rohingya community to turn discarded food-aid sachets and plastic into sellable bags, bracelets and wallets inside Cox's Bazar's camps.

🇺🇬 Uganda · Generous Designs Africa

South Sudanese refugee youth and single mothers in Uganda's Bidibidi settlement turn discarded plastic and aid tarpaulins into waterproof bags and household goods.

🇦🇹 Austria · HEMAYAT - Betreuungszentrum für Folter- und Kriegsüberlebende

Since 1995, Hemayat has offered free interpreter-supported psychotherapy in Vienna to survivors of torture and war, one of the few services of its kind in Austria.

🇹🇷 Türkiye · Istanbul Recycling Workers' Association (Geri Donusum Iscileri Dernegi)

Istanbul's recycling workers, who by the president's account collect 80 percent of Turkey's household waste, have organised their own association and are now issuing members ID cards and numbered depots under municipal rules.

🇲🇾 Malaysia · The Lost Food Project

Staff stationed inside Kuala Lumpur's wholesale market pull perfectly edible vegetables and fruit off the discard line, and in 2025 The Lost Food Project turned 2.9 million kg of it into 8.5 million meals.

🇱🇧 Lebanon · SOILS Permaculture Association Lebanon

A Lebanese permaculture NGO teaches Syrian refugee families to grow food in micro-gardens using recycled grey water, cutting reliance on food aid.

🇦🇹 Austria · SOS-Menschenrechte

In Linz's Haus der Menschenrechte, SOS-Menschenrechte houses unaccompanied refugee minors and asylum seekers while running Stand Up! workshops that take human-rights education into Austrian classrooms.

🇱🇧 Lebanon · Anera

Anera put 219 solar panels and 24 lithium batteries on 14 struggling community and health centers in Lebanon, cutting their average monthly electricity bill by 46%.

🇸🇸 South Sudan · South Sudan Red Cross Society

After four straight record flood seasons displaced an estimated 1.5 million South Sudanese, the national Red Cross has pre-agreed funds to act two months ahead along the White Nile and the Sudd wetland.

🇵🇸 Palestine · The Freedom Theatre

A theatre school inside Jenin refugee camp has given Palestinian children a stage and a camera as tools of nonviolent resistance since 2006.

🇺🇬 Uganda · Wild Forests & Fauna (WildFF)

A US nonprofit trains South Sudanese refugees in northern Uganda to replant native trees and build fuel-efficient cookstoves, reversing severe deforestation around their camp.

🇦🇹 Austria · fairplay Initiative (VIDC)

Since the 1997 European Year Against Racism, fairplay has used football pitches across Austria as classrooms for fighting racism, sexism and discrimination in sport.