“When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me: ‘Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.’” –Mr. Rogers Yes, the world’s refugee situation is dire. And with over 60 million displaced people in the world, it’s often hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel. However, let us remind you that the world is teeming with, as Mr. Rogers puts it, helpers. We have, in fact, seen it through our own eyes, and we witnes

The Lost Boys of Sudan represent a group of refugees with a unique story of struggle and survival. Despite being torn from their families by civil war as young boys, forced to survive with only each other to rely on, they have had to overcome unimaginable hardship and misfortune. The name “Lost Boys” was deemed by media to describe a group of over 200,000 boys ranging from the ages of about two to sixteen years of age. The Civil war in Sudan took their families as their mothe

My earliest memories are of war, dead bodies and my uncle trying to save my life. At age 3, I became a refugee of the Sudanese civil war and one among 20,000 “Lost Boys of Sudan.” I was orphaned because my father was one of the 2.5 million people who were killed by war, and I was separated from my mother and sister when my village (Akobo, Sudan) was attacked and overrun by terrorists. Now when I read and hear on the news about a ban on all refugees seeking to enter the United

*Opinions expressed by HHSP contributors are their own. Having fallen in love with the quality of Ethiopian coffee, I felt compelled to learn more about its origins, and so, I did my homework. With some research, I learned of the intriguing story of the discovery of coffee and it’s birth in Ethiopia; the story of kaffa: Kaffa is the origin of the word “coffee.” It is the name of the region in which coffee was discovered and was located in the ancient country Abyssinia, which