refugee children

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refugee children

Outcasts united

the story of a refugee soccer team that changed a town
2013
American-educated Jordanian Luma Mufleh founds a youth soccer team comprised of children from Liberia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkan states, and elsewhere in the refugee settlement town of Clarkston, Georgia, bringing the children together to discover their common bonds as they adjust to life in a new homeland.

Outcasts united

an American town, a refugee team, and one woman's quest to make a difference
2009
American-educated Jordanian Luma Mufleh founds a youth soccer team comprised of children from Liberia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkan states, and elsewhere in the refugee settlement town of Clarkston, Georgia, bringing the children together to discover their common bonds as they adjust to life in a new homeland.

Making it home

real-life stories from children forced to flee
2005
Presents a collection of first-hand accounts of children who have been forced to flee their war-torn homeland to become refugees, including stories from kids from Kosovo, Bosnia, Afghanistan, Iraq, Congo, and more.

The whispering cloth

a refugee's story
1995
A young girl in a Thai refugee camp finds the story within herself to create her own pa'ndau.

Refugee child

my memories of the 1956 Hungarian revolution
2006
Presents the story of the Kalman family who traveled from Hungary to Austria during the Hungarian revolution in 1956, also provides a history of Hungary from 1848 to 1956, and a look at life under Communist rule.

The book of Jonas

2013
When his family is killed during an errant U.S. military operation in the Middle East, fifteen-year-old Jonas is sent to live with a foster family in America and struggles to adapt before revealing the heroics of a missing soldier who saved his life.

Children's exodus

a history of the Kindertransport
2011
Britain evacuated nearly 10,000 Jewish children from the Nazi-occupied territories in the months leading up to the outbreak of the Second World War. They were placed with host families so they could survive the war. In 1945 there was a second Kindertransport to rescue young survivors of the Holocaust. After the war the Refugee Children Movement was established in order to unite children with any family members who had survived the Holocaust.

Leaving Cuba

from Operation Pedro Pan to Elian
2000
Considers the various ways children have escaped from Communist Cuba and found refuge in the United States through different plans set up to help them, from the early 1960s to today.

Middle Eastern migration

2012
Recounts the experiences of people who have left the Middle East to start a new life for themselves and their families in America, describing what life is like for children as they adjust to America and why they left the Middle East.

Outcasts united

the story of a refugee soccer team that changed a town
2012
American-educated Jordanian Luma Mufleh founds a youth soccer team comprised of children from Liberia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Balkan states, and elsewhere in the refugee settlement town of Clarkston, Georgia, bringing the children together to discover their common bonds as they adjust to life in a new homeland.

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