These in-their-own-words pieces are told to Patricia Lane and co-edited with input from the interviewee for the purpose of brevity.

Milad Rajabi empowers refugees to protect our climate. This 25-year-old former refugee from Afghanistan founded and runs Refugee Talk to enhance the resettlement process for other newcomers. Now a permanent Canadian resident, he believes some essential ingredients for building a new life here include learning some of our Indigenous heritage and helping make the impacts of climate change on both their homeland and their new country more transparent. 

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Refugee Talk lifts up newcomers’ voices so the world can hear and be enriched by their stories. We publish videos and podcasts about their journeys. We offer workshops for newcomers to access housing, education and employment. We support networking and job-hunting. We point them to financial institutions we know have an open attitude towards newcomers. We host conversations between senior newcomers to decrease isolation and improve their conversational English. Our goal isn't just to help newcomers. It is to equip them to add the richness of their experience to the important conversations that affect us all, including........

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