John: share several Syrian refugees' stories from Jordan in the coming weeks (2016)

promise · status: open (updates through 2016, not reported done) · last event: progress update (2016-06-21) · owner: John

In March 2016, after visiting the Azraq refugee camp in Jordan, John promised to share several Syrian refugees' stories in the coming weeks. In June 2016, the day after World Refugee Day, he shared the story of Mufak, Nada and their five children.

Told alongside: John meets Syrian refugees Mufak, Nada and their five children in Jordan and visits them after their resettlement in Rockford, Illinois (2016) · John asks viewers to support UNHCR's underfunded mission for refugees (2016) · John travels to Jordan and Tunisia to visit refugee camps (2016)

About: refugee, Jordan, Syria

date	event	what	video
2016-03-08	promised	John says he will share several of these refugees' stories in the coming weeks.	Aida and Majeeda: Thoughts from the Azraq Refugee Camp 00:00:09
2016-03-15	progress update	John explains: a brother on a university scholarship in Turkey, two married sisters in Syria, his engineer father and older brother crossed to Europe by boat over a year ago; the rest hope to reunite in Germany.	The Extraordinary Story of Hussam: Teenager, Writer, and Syrian Refugee 00:02:11
2016-06-07	progress update	John visited Musa Mohammed's family, whose 18-year-old daughter was about to begin university; they had a two-storey house and a car in Syria and now have only hope in their children's education.	Zaatari: Thoughts from a Refugee Camp 00:02:15
2016-06-21	progress update	Because yesterday was World Refugee Day, John shares the story of a family he met in Jordan: Mufak, Nada and their five kids.	Syrian Refugees in the United States: One Family's Story 00:00:00