#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.

🇱🇧 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.

🇵🇸 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.