In 2013, I volunteered twelve months of my life, communications skills and knowledge to assist the world's refugees, asylum-seekers and stateless people as they go about their lives in Ukraine. Working for the UN Agency for Refugees.

In 2014, hundreds of thousands of my fellow Ukrainians were forced to flee from home. Some of them were fortunate to return. My family among them. But most of the Ukrainians, Syrians, Zimbabweans,  Rohingya people all across our planet are not feeling welcomed or at home. UNHCR works on a daily basis to help them get that sense of home. If not materially then, for starters, mentally.

"It was when we went to the health centre in Rwamwanja settlement and I saw a young woman – maybe around 20 years old – standing, leaning against a building as if she were propping it up. But, in reality, she was in pain because she was giving birth. It made me think not just about refugees fleeing, but also about the birth of new refugees inside a camp and what it means to be born in a refugee camp. It got me thinking about expectant mothers and what kind of future would a child born in a camp have? I think they will have a future," -- Henning Mankell, Swedish writer, on a 2013 UNHCR-hosted visit to southern Uganda.

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