The IRC’s Healing Classrooms programme trains schools and educators on how to offer refugee and asylum-seeking children a safe place to learn and thrive after experiencing conflict and crisis. Teacher Suzanne travels between schools using the Healing Classrooms approach in her art lessons. She explains how this promotes healing and community through creative expression, helping students to process their emotions and celebrate their identities.

For refugees and asylum seekers, finding safety and building a new life in the UK brings huge challenges. Having fled war, persecution, or disaster, refugees often have to leave behind their whole lives to start over.

The floods in Pakistan have killed over 1,100 people, including nearly 360 children and a third of the country is underwater.

The Hussaini family are now rebuilding their lives in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Who is a refugee? Where do most refugees come from? What’s the difference between refugees and asylum seekers? How many refugees live in the UK? Can asylum seekers work in the UK? Which countries host the most refugees? Find out the answers to these commonly asked questions and get the real facts and statistics about refugees.

After meeting on the IRC's leadership course, Halyna and Masoma have developed a wonderful friendship where they continue to support one another to integrate in the UK. They are now hoping to expand their support to other refugees in London and around the world.