Refugees: telling their stories
The High School Writing Competition is about generating understanding of refugee issues through the sharing and telling of personal stories.
The 2005 competition invited entries in three categories:
1. An article or story based on an interview with a former refugee;
2. An article or essay on the 2005 theme for World Refugee Day It takes courage to be a refugee based on publicly available material, such as the UNHCR website;
3. A personal story by a refugee.
Click here for a list of winners in each category for the 2005 Competition.
For the guidelines, click here.
Click here for the winning stories in 2005, (pdf 1,237 kb)
We regret that the publication of winning stories from 2004 is temporarily unavailable.
Click here for
the winning stories in 2003, (pdf
1,047Kb).
Latest news...
Australia for UNHCR appointed Adut Dau Atem and Sophie Weldon as new Youth Representatives to help raise awareness about the work of UNHCR and raise funds for its humanitarian programmes.
Sophie Weldon's compelling story of Adut's journey from
war-torn Sudan to Kenya and then Australia won the 2003 Competition
and helped foster an enduring friendship between the girls
and their families.
Click here for Adut's story.
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