A dream welcome for refugees fleeing the nightmare. (News 2016, by Magali Girardin) - Swiss Press Award
Magali Girardin
09/14/15. A day in Geneva, a report from a family of Palestinian refugees from Syria participating in the Swiss government's pilot reception project. Ali gets ready for school, helped by his mother. © Magali Girardin.
Tribune de Genève
Photo / News
2016
Magali Girardin
In 2014, the canton of Geneva welcomed eighty refugees as part of a pilot program funded by the Swiss Confederation. This refugee "resettlement" project was initiated by the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Bern agreed to welcome 500 people from Syria over three years. Geneva volunteered to host 80 of them.
