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This week you're joining us at the United Nations Global Refugee Forum in

Geneva for a special edition of the Happy Pod. We're putting aside the

politics of migration and choosing instead to hear from the people at the heart of these journeys.

Extraordinary men and women who fled their homes in search of what everyone wants, a place where they'll be safe from war, violence and persecution

and have a chance to build a positive future. Hello, I'm Harry Bly. In this edition, the Somalian man who returned to his Kenyan refugee camp to enable children to read and learn.

Books, open doors, books educate you.

Books gives you opportunity.

Books are passport-like.

A fascination with electricity which inspired a young Congolese girl

to study engineering and go on to create a robotic arm to help doctors and nurses take

blood from patients. When we got to South Africa I noticed it was like whoa these lights and I was always

curious on how can that happen can I also do that? And meet the woman who became an Olympic cyclist after fleeing Afghanistan,

now she's her team's chief at the Paris Games in 2024.

The day when I had my race, I see that all the dreams are real as I just we have to trust on it to believe on it and to work for it

All that and more to come on the Happy Pod from the BBC World Service.

Let's start by introducing you to Somalian-born Abdullahi Miri.

When he was just three, his family fled the war, seeking sanctuary at the Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya.

Later, Abdullahi was welcomed to set up home in Norway where he studied to become a journalist.

And then he returned to Kenya, where he set up the Refugee Youth Education Hub.

This project provides books to children in the Dadab refugee camp, where he grew up, and since

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