This was our original plan: my parents would come from NJ to our home in DC a few days before Eid so we could celebrate the last days of Ramadan together and have a family Eid with my in-laws, cousins and extended family.

Half of all refugees are children; that's more than 10 million children. It's hard to imagine that number; so instead just imagine these little kids whom we had the pleasure of meeting at camps in Greece.

They were taking out every item from their tent and piling it on the dirt outside, when we arrived - mattresses, pots and pans, bags of clothes, food items, stuffed toys.

On World Refugee Day, a video about the importance of getting to know each other as people, not as labels. Thank you for following the '30 days 30 deeds' blog and reading

We met Hoda at a camp for the most vulnerable in Lesbos; she had been living in a tent there for the past six months, with her three sons, 5, 9 and 13, one of whom has severe autism

KindWorks hosted a welcome dinner for refugee families a few months ago; it was part of a nationwide effort called Refugees Welcome ❤️ . We invited eight families from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan

Heres' a photo journey through one of KindWorks' apartment set ups - an amazing coming together of community to set up homes for families who've had to flee their own.

Alexa was nervous about this week’s refugee apartment set up, she couldn’t sleep at night thinking about it. The moving company that had previously helped us wasn’t available, and there was an Afghani

Athens, GreeceMeet one of the young boys at the refugee camp who simply captured our hearts. He came straight up to us, shook our hands and said ‘nice to meet you’, with a smile so sweet

Mohamad was starting to whip fresh cream in a donated stainless steal mixer when we arrived - a quart of heavy cream, nine spoons of sugar, and a pinch of vanilla whirring

The walls are covered in the plywood type material used in falafel stands in refugee camps around the world, photos of refugees line one wall, the other has a list of common recipe ingredients

Mohammad desires three things: a good school for his children; an opportunity to do the work he loves in interior decoration; and the chance to play the tambor again

It was New Year’s Day and we were enjoying Syrian coffee and delicious homemade coconut cookies in Mohammad’s apartment in Athens. The kids were eating the chocolates we

Athens, GreeceIt was New Year’s eve and we wanted to ask Mohammad, an affable Iraqi Kurdish man with blue-grey eyes, his wish for 2017. Saanya wanted to record him

There were trays and trays full of baklava in different shapes and with various fillings. We got the grand tour – 'lady’s fingers', shaped, well, like lady’s fingers; small round ones with hollow centers called

I came across the poem 'Refugees' by Brian Bilston a few days ago and was deeply moved. It challenges our perceptions, questions the way we see things. The poem is read two ways, with two very different meanings.

Athens, GreeceWe would be sitting in small 'caravans' (containers) with 8 people residing on thin mattresses, one hot plate, and no privacy, but every single time we were treated

Athens, GreeceEvery refugee seems to have a smartphone. It’s their lifeline. They need it to let family know they are safe, at every point of their treacherous journey; their families

This sweet little boy was only a few months old when he left Syria. His mother traveled with a smuggler to Turkey, then Greece. "We stay five days in the mountains, it's raining, it's cold