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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.

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.

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 artwork, 21 year old Mohammad depicts the dangers at sea when many are placed on unseaworthy vessels.

In this artwork, Al Sarah depicts the dangers that refugees and asylum seekers endure to reach safety and have a better life.

She also partners with Fatima Adam to depict the importance of awareness-raising.

“Age fades away while in captivity, your life fades away, and it gets to a point that everything fades away” is how Haj describes his artwork.

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.

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, 23-year-old Fadwa depicts the false promises by smugglers and traffickers motivated by greed.