How Becoming A Refugee Changes You

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🗓️ 21 March 2022

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Inside Ukraine, millions of people have been displaced, with millions more living in increasingly dire conditions. In the city of Maruipol, hundreds of thousands of civilians remain trapped — with dwindling supplies of food and water and no electricity. Mariupol has been bombarded by the Russians for weeks now. Petro Andrushchenko, an adviser to Mariupol's mayor, told NPR civilians in bomb shelters are running out of food. Millions of others have fled Ukraine without knowing if or when they'll be able to return home. Amid that uncertainty, they must start a new life elsewhere. It's an experience only people who've been refugees can truly understand. Mary Louise Kelly talks with refugees from Vietnam, Syria, and Afghanistan about their experiences, how fleeing their home country has affected their life and what life is like now. In participating regions, you'll also hear a local news segment to help you make sense of what's going on in your community.Email us at considerthis@npr.org.

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0:00.0	In less than a month, more than 3 million people have fled Ukraine.
0:05.0	That's more than left Syria, Iraq, or Afghanistan in an entire year of those wars.
0:10.8	Most Ukrainian refugees are women and children.
0:13.2	Men of fighting age are required to stay behind and defend the country.
0:16.0	So you're seeing families that are trying to carry their life's possessions in suitcases
0:21.5	with children in tow, sometimes elderly in tow, travel to the border is arduous.
0:27.4	Our scope act is with Project Ho, an organization providing mental health services to refugees
0:32.3	on the Polish-Ukrainian border.
0:34.6	People are arriving at border crossings by car, train, or on foot.
0:39.0	And many show up with no plan for where they'll go.
0:41.6	You're listening to these almost surreal conversations between themselves and in some cases
0:46.6	with me.
0:47.6	Well, this man's offering me a ride to Germany, but this bus here is going to Norway.
0:52.2	Should we go here?
0:53.2	Should we go there?
0:54.2	These really critical life decisions with no knowledge, no information as to what lies
1:00.0	ahead and no idea what options may be out there for them.
1:05.4	Consider this.
1:06.6	Millions of people are leaving Ukraine with no idea of if or when they'll be able to return.
1:12.5	And with that uncertainty, they are beginning to start new lives somewhere else.
1:16.9	It's an experience only people who have been refugees can truly understand.
1:24.9	From NPR, I'm Ari Shapiro.
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