Refugees

Following a recent visit to Ukraine and Poland, Vermont Public checked in with Magicians Without Borders, a nonprofit run by Lincoln's Tom Verner and his partner Janet Fredericks that uses magic to entertain, educate and empower.

The legislation would eliminate a one-year residency requirement for grants that cover workforce training and courses like driver's ed. The bill already passed in the Senate.

Organizations in Vermont plan to increase the number of refugees they take in this year to roughly 600 people. But the state’s housing crisis could get in the way.

Leaders of refugee resettlement agencies are asking the state to help fund temporary and long-term housing for refugees.

Farmers growing culturally significant foods with the New Farms for New Americans program lost their crops to the past week's severe flooding.

Host Mikaela Lefrak speaks with an immigration attorney in Vermont and the head of a refugee center in Montreal about U.S.-Canada border relations and asylum seekers.

If you had to leave your home, you'd bring essential items for survival. But if you could take one sentimental object, what would it be? We asked refugees from Ukraine, Afghanistan, Honduras and more.

The Vermont Agency of Agriculture is receiving a $500,000 federal grant so the state can buy locally-grown food from underserved farmers, then distribute it to Vermonters facing food insecurity.

The new artwork recreates similar murals the Afghans painted back in Afghanistan, before they were forced to flee when the Taliban returned to power.

Violence and natural disasters are fueling the surge in the number of people displaced, the U.N. says in a new report.