Refugee Week 2022 is dedicated from the 20th of June to the 26th of June, with an intent to bring awareness about the horrific past of the refugees and the challenges they are facing while looking for security. Refugee Week celebrates the struggling refugees with diverse art, culture, sports, and educational events. This helps people from different backgrounds, cultures, and struggles to connect and help each other.

1. WHY YOU SHOULD CARE ABOUT
WORLD REFUGEE
WEEK 2022

2. A refugee is someone who fled their country to seek
refuge in other countries. The most common reasons
for seeking refuge are war, natural calamities, political
inabilities, persecution, and violence. These people fled
their country, risked their lives, and started from
scratch so that they and their families could have a
better shot at life.
What is a refugee?

3. What is Refugee Week and
why is it celebrated?
Refugee Week is a UK-based programme founded in 1998 and held every
year since then. It started as a programme celebrating the refugees who
found refuge in the UK. Now, this movement has spread across the
world.
Refugee Week 2022 is dedicated from the 20th of June to the 26th of
June, with an intent to bring awareness about the horrific past of the
refugees and the challenges they are facing while looking for security.
Refugee Week celebrates the struggling refugees with diverse art,
culture, sports, and educational events. This helps people from different
backgrounds, cultures, and struggles to connect and help each other.

4. Refugee
Week 2022
theme
Every year the Refugee week has a different theme and
this year’s theme was ‘Healing’. The Refugee Week
website explains the intention of the theme as a
“celebration of community, mutual care and the human
ability to start again.
Trying to elaborate on the importance of this week, the
website says, “Healing means recovering from a painful
experience or situation so that we can continue to live.
No one understands this better than those who have lost
their homes and had to build new lives from scratch.”

5. Moreover, the website, while trying to appeal to people to join the
programme, adds, “Whether it’s about looking after ourselves and
each other at difficult times, overcoming political divisions or coming
together to fight for the survival of our shared planet, healing
matters to all of us. Whoever and wherever you are, we hope you’ll
join us for Refugee Week 2022 to imagine a world where healing
replaces harm, and care becomes our shared currency.”

6. Current
Refugees
situation
According to the United Nations High Commissioner of
Refugees(UNHCR), by the end of 2018, 70.8 Million people
were displaced and 37000 people were displaced every
day 2018. The displacement rate doubled in 20 years.
The most concerning fact about the refugee crisis is that
only 16% of the world's refugees are hosted by Developed
and rich countries and the other refugees move to their
neighbouring countries. A large population of refugees is
hosted by the poorest countries in the world.

7. People risk their lives trying to find a better home for their kids. They
have to build their homes and lives from scratch after being forced
to abandon the lives that they already had, only to make minimum
wages in the countries where they seek refuge. Apart from that,
most countries make it very hard for them to live peacefully.
Xenophobia, Racism, discrimination, and violence are just some ugly
truths of the living conditions of the refugees. Making people aware
of these horrors and their challenges might make them sympathize
with the refugees, in the hope that we could make it at least a bit
better for them.