It has been such a joy to witness the beginnings of scaling the work of Hua Dan into new markets through the application of technology. Prior to the pandemic, there had been no obvious push to consider the opportunities of the virtual world but, during lockdown, like so many around the world, we began to deliver our workshops through Zoom and saw the potential of using technology to scale our impact.

At Scheherazade, we choose to see wholeness, not lack. A refugee is, above all, a legal status. Simply that. It is not a statement on someone’s ‘quality’ as a human being. The problem with talking about working with refugees is that it reduces a group of disparate human beings, each with their own unique gifts, to a ‘problem to be solved’, rather than an opportunity to be harnessed, allowing each individual within that group to define themselves in myriad different ways, each unique to themselves.