Sentences with phrase «escaped war in her country»

In 2008, the Chaldean Community Foundation launched the Mental Health Initiative to support the mental health needs of Iraqi refugees that escaped the war in their country and subsequent religious and racial persecution.

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The story begins, briefly, in Sri Lanka, where three strangers are thrown together and, after being given passports belonging to those already dead, form a «fake» family to help escape a country ravaged by civil war.

Writer / director Petra Lataster - Czisch, through complete neutrality, shows us Kiet Engel's strict but never cruel methods of teaching children who have just escaped a war - torn country in the documentary MISS KIET»S CHILDREN (De Kinderen van juf Kiet)(LMB: 4.5 / 5)

Among some stories that stand out are Welcome to Mars (a father and son are each other's support system in a dysfunctional family but there exist some secrets) and Go See Costas (a Bulgarian escapes the civil war in his country to get to New York and start over with no money and no English.)

L. S. Matthews» Fish (2006), the story of a family's escape from their adopted unnamed country, could be set in a number of war - torn countries where the lives of natives and humanitarian workers are in danger.

In an effort to flee a war - torn country that was becoming less tolerant of basic freedoms, Saedi's parents hatched a plan to escape to the United States with 2 - year - old Saedi and her older sister, Samira, in toIn an effort to flee a war - torn country that was becoming less tolerant of basic freedoms, Saedi's parents hatched a plan to escape to the United States with 2 - year - old Saedi and her older sister, Samira, in toin tow.

The Sesiakins, who immigrated from Moldova in 1993 to escape civil war, came here to raise their kids «in a peaceful country,» says Olga.

The work is based on the personal narratives of six individuals who have fled their countries in response to a range of oppressive conditions: Sarah Ezzat Mardini, who escaped war - torn Syria, José Maria João, a former child soldier from Angola; Mamy Maloba Langa, a survivor from the Democratic Republic of the Congo; Shabeena Saveri, an Indian transgender activist; Luis Nava, a political dissident from Venezuela; and Farah Abdi Mohamed, a young atheist from Somalia.

Mekas also came to Basel to screen in the Film sector Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania, a film he made in 1971 while on his first trip back to his home country after escaping during the war.

At the end of the war, with Poland under Soviet occupation, Leonard's grandmother and her mother (still a child), escaped the country and reunited with her great aunt in a Displaced Persons camp in Italy.