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Three Refugee Nurses from Awbarre Camp were awarded job offers to work as Personal Care Attendants (Nurses) in Canada through TalentLift partnership. All three refugees were supported and provided capacity training through UNHCR’s “Telling the Real Story” (TRS) Project in Jijiga in partnership with PROSPECTS: Youth Empowerment Funding by the Netherlands.

Telling the Real Story is a UNHCR project which aims to promote an intra-community dialogue about the risks of trafficking and smuggling for people on the move.

We are grateful to our refugee volunteers who play a critical role in helping refugees and delivering essential, even life-saving information, to refugees in their communities.

25-year-old Amany Ibrahim Mohammed depicts the complex web of human trafficking in her paintings in this collection of artwork from East Sudan.

In this series of artworks, Fatima depicts the contexts in which smuggling and trafficking thrive and ways in which protection services are delivered to persons of concern.

In this artwork, Habib understands loss having lost friends to the Mediterranean Sea. In this artwork, he depicts the lures and misinformation by smugglers and traffickers who do not divulge that the journey may lead to death.

In this series of artworks, 27-year-old Taqwa depicts the dangers of irregular onward movement and the physical violence that victims of trafficking are subjected to.

In this series of artworks, 23-year-old Fadwa depicts the false promises by smugglers and traffickers motivated by greed.

In this series of artworks, 23-year-old Al Haris depicts how in the quest for a better life, refugees and migrants can be lured by false promises leading them to embark on dangerous journeys.

28-year-old Halima Musa Hamed depicts the various forms of modern-day slavery and how they intertwine with smuggling and trafficking in her series of artwork.

In this series of artworks, 24 year old Asaad depicts how human beings are sold, bought and traded much like goods by smugglers and traffickers.