A former child refugee from Iraq was able to track down the man who gifted her a bike after her tweet went viral Jason Hahn is a former Human Interest and Sports Reporter for PEOPLE. He started at ...
Sometimes the internet takes a break from being on fire and churns out something good. This week, a woman was able to thank the man who gave her a bike when she was a five-year-old refugee, with the ...
In the 1990s, Mevan Babakar was a young woman living in a refugee camp near Zwolle in the Netherlands, wishing she could have a normal childhood without the worries of war. Babakar and her family were ...
Mevan Babakar took to Twitter on Monday asking for help. The 29-year-old had embarked on a mission to retrace her family's refugee journey that took them to London. During her research, Babakar ...
LONDON — A former child refugee has tracked down and personally thanked a man who gave her a red bicycle over 20 years ago shortly after she and family arrived in the Netherlands from war-torn Iraq.
A former child refugee from Iraq is on the search for a camp worker who bought her a bike 24 years ago. Mevan Babakar lived in a refugee camp near Zwolle, Netherlands for five years during the 1990s.
LONDON — Memories of a brand new bicycle — and the mystery man who gave it to her when she was a 5-year-old in a Dutch refugee center — have played out as vignettes in Mevan Babakar’s mind for most of ...
When she was 5 years old, Mevan Babakar lived in a Netherlands refugee camp after her family fled Iraq in the 1990s during the Gulf War. It was there that Babakar, now 29, was gifted her very own ...