Since the early days of his Papacy, Pope Francis has made spreading compassion for refugees and migrants a key priority. This September, as Europe’s refugee crisis spiraled, he announced the Vatican would house two refugee families in its parishes—and he called on religious communities across Europe to follow his lead. “May every parish, every religious […]
The 19 Million Project has a satellite team operating in Egypt through Welad ElBalad Media. In the piece below, Fatemah Farag, founder and CEO, describes their work. Egypt is often seen by the West as a country that “exports” illegal economic migrants to Europe. But Egypt is also the destination for tens of thousands of […]
Many journalists covering the refugee crisis this year put the pieces together from a distance. If they’re on the ground in Europe, they drop in, talk to people for a bit, and move on quickly. Leticia Duarte, a Brazilian journalist with the newspaper Zero Hora, spent eight days traveling with a family of Syrian refugees […]
For anyone trying to make sense of the refugee crisis, numbers are crucial. Tracking the people who lose their lives on the path to asylum is one way for us to understand the scale of the crisis — and a powerful tool to push governments to take action. But official numbers are often wrong — […]
What happens in a country so violent, unstable and repressive that even hardened war correspondents leave? That’s the situation Syrian journalist Zaina Erhaim faced when she returned to Aleppo two years ago. Erhaim, 30, who spoke with The 19 Million Project via Skype this week, is now one of the only professional journalists working regularly […]
The Baobab center in Tiburtina, Rome is the first stop for thousands of African refugees seeking a new life in Europe. At the center, they receive urgent medical care, a dormitory bed, new clothes and solid meals. Most stay just a few days because Italy is just one stop in their journey–and it can be […]
The danger and often deadly exhaustion of a migrant’s journey is difficult to convey to the rest of the world. In 2010, filmmaker Luca Cusani took a creative approach by curating videos he found on the internet made by the migrants themselves. Cusani, working with the nonprofit Naga, spliced short mobile phone videos together taken […]
