Georgia free clinic founded by immigrant doctors
Refugees, immigrants and others without health insurance have a health care safety net at this multi-cultural health center.
Double arm transplant gives US veteran new hope
Retired Marine Sgt. John Peck lost all four of his limbs in an explosion in Afghanistan in 2010, but unlike many people who suffer such losses, Peck isn’t relying on prosthetic arms.
From refugee dishwasher to US cardiologist
Dr. Heval Mohamed Kelli has come a long way from his humble beginnings in Syria and now helps other refugees.
‘This is my occupation now’ — Mosul boy turns to scrap metal to survive
Covered in dirt, 11-year-old Hassan Abdullah treks through the rubble of Mosul’s Old City, foraging for whatever pieces of scrap metal he can find.
Yazidi children abused by IS share the horrors they experienced
VOA meets a ‘cub of the caliphate’ and two girls used as sex slaves who are among the children receiving psychological treatment after being freed from Islamic State.
Party like an Arab
Some singing, dancing, good-time loving bakers are out to give Americans a different impression of Arabs than we might get from the news.
All carved up with nowhere to go in Mosul
You’d think Iraq’s carpentry trade would be booming after the defeat of Islamic State, but skilled carpenters still struggle to recover after the war destroyed their equipment and drove their customers away.
Most of these men are dead, the women all became IS sex slaves
This freeze frame from a wedding video captures dancing guests in Kocho, Iraq, several months before Islamic State came and slaughtered the men and older women, and kidnapped hundreds of girls. Through his original paintings, Lukman Ahmad of VOA’s Kurdish Service, tells their story.
VOA visits the building residents say IS used to toss gay men to their deaths
School like no other
The sound of graduation at Gallaudet University is more drumbeat than human voice.