British - Designer | April 16, 1977 -
I am so impressed by UNHCR staff who live and work side by side with the refugees. It's really remarkable.
Alek Wek
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When I first started working with World Vision, I would sit down and talk with them about issues that concern any part of the world. MSF told me about what was going on in North Korea. I also support AIDS and breast cancer charities.
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I don't understand when people are being greedy or mean, when they say who should get what, when they get control of someone else's life.
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My family is the most important thing to me.
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If my mother hadn't encouraged me, I would be nervous and feeling like I'm doing something wrong.
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There are people who can look out for other human beings; there are people who can speak up when something is not right and say, 'This is wrong, and something should be done.'
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I feel, in 2015, when we see human beings and children dying to cross the ocean, trying to find safety, something more must be done to help them because refugees are just like me and you.
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My father made sure of discipline, but my mum, she was serious business.
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From nine years old, I lived with fear. I saw our neighbours disappearing. I was scared that I would come home from school and my parents would not be there.
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I still have dreams in which someone is coming to the door.
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Bones inside clothes. That was war to me.
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When I was 10 years old, I fled my homeland amid the bomb blasts of civil war in Sudan.
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