Reuniting Refugee Families
Since 2018, Michael Bacuth has had one goal. Rescue his niece. Michael is a refugee from Sudan, having come to the U.S. to escape the kind of violence that took the lives of his brother and sister-in-law. Thankfully, his niece survived and turned up in an Egyptian refugee camp five years later. “I need to bring her here because she’s a little girl,” Bacuth says. “Nobody is with her. That’s why I need help. … We’re waiting for anybody to help us.” For years, it’s been almost impossible for Michael to bring his orphaned niece to the U.S. But with the change
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How Can We Help Kids at the Border?
“There is a couple of reasons that I came here,” Lili said, “but the main reason is because there is a lot of violence in Honduras.” Lili left Honduras at age 16 with her infant son, whose birth was the result of sexual assault. She attempted to find safety in the U.S., where her mother lived. She hadn’t seen her in 11 years. She made her way through Guatemala and Mexico by bus and walked through the desert for hours. Eventually, she was picked up by immigration officials, held in a detention facility, and then finally reunited with her mother. Lili
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Welcoming Where You Are
What can we do in our daily lives to create welcome for immigrants and refugees? How can we activate our compassion to engage meaningful change? We had a conversation with Kitti Murray about how her faith and compassion led her to welcome and serve refugee neighbors resettling in the small town where she lived outside of Atlanta. She joined hands with neighbors to start Refuge Coffee Co., which has been featured on CNN, NBC Nightly News, American Voices, Food & Wine magazine, and NPR’s The Salt. Here are a few big takeaways from our conversation together. Kitti shared how she got to know the
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