Melissa Fleming
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 23/07/2018
@DrWaheedArian set up Arian Teleheal – a remarkable charity which allows off-duty doctors in the NHS to help medics in war-torn countries by swapping advice on their smartphones. https://t.co/W1UMiELGZX
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 22/07/2018
#Jordan has taken in 422 Syrian citizens from southern Syria who are at risk and are seeking asylum. UNHCR will work with Canada, UK, Germany & others to relocate them to third countries. https://t.co/pPnWaPi7yz
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 21/07/2018
I just published “7 ways that businesses can support refugees” https://t.co/SJ7ZV87OEC
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 21/07/2018
A glimpse into one of the world’s most underreported refugee crises. We need more donor support to help Central African refugees. After escaping hell, they shouldn't need to face hunger and hardship. #CARcrisis @AJENews https://t.co/SGCJpYTmh5
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 21/07/2018
...the temporary nature of our being-ness, and our shared sorrow, the heartache we each carry and yet too often refuse to acknowledge in one another, and out of this Saeed felt it might be possible, in the face of death, to believe in humanity’s potential for a better world.”
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 21/07/2018
A passage: …and he touched a feeling that we are all children who lose our parents, all of us, every man and woman and boy and girl, and we too will all be lost by those who come after us and love us, and this loss unites humanity, unites every human being...
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 21/07/2018
Just finished this stirring book by @mohsin_hamid. It's about falling in unlikely love, escaping a war through a door to places on the edge where the displaced suffer, feel fear & rejection but also discover humanity and themselves and the strength to begin again. Beautiful. https://t.co/1BdVB5aizG
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 21/07/2018
What cancer taught me. Thanks to @7piliers for creating this space for people facing the lows and highs and absurdities of serious illness. https://t.co/fYpoKfRpSd
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 20/07/2018
“It is difficult to estimate the number of girls who die due to FGM per month or per day because they are [sworn] to secrecy, particularly in rural areas." #EndFGM https://t.co/3CErfau5gI
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Melissa Fleming
@melissarfleming - 20/07/2018
And... It is critical that returns of refugees and IDPs are not pressured, rushed or premature. Refugees need to be able to make a free and informed choice about their future. https://t.co/OWdYs0FBtg
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