Imagine.

Your home country has become inhospitable. Maybe because of climate change, war, or economic or political turmoil. You know that for your family to survive, you have to… leave. So you sell everything you own: your house, your business, your valuables… And then you take to the roads, the seas, the rainforests. At the risk of your life, dodging military troops or cartels, police forces, or rebels, in the hopes of a better future for yourself and your family.

Imagine.

You’ve spent most of your life’s savings getting to a country with an economy and a political climate marginally better than yours, but you now need to acquire refugee status, or face deportation to the place you just sacrificed everything you had to escape.

Imagine.

The state services and administration in the country you’ve come to don’t speak your language, don’t understand the documents you’ve risked so much to safeguard until your arrival.

This is where the Open Language Impact comes into play, our charitable arm. And the IRC, the Refugee Legal Support, the
Centro de Acolhimento para Refugiados (CAR), Hearts & Homes for Refugees, and Torture Abolition and Survivors Support Coalition International (TASSC), which also help asylum seekers.

At OLI, we translate materials that allow refugees to access the services they are entitled to and ease their way into their new life. Because everyone deserves to live in peace and security.

So today, on World Refugee Day, we would like to celebrate all people, wherever and whoever they are, who have risked their lives for a better future, and pledge to keep helping them find an easier path to peace and prosperity.