Finding our sphere of usefulness

Laurel Townhead writes about current work on refugees and migrants at the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva

by Laurel Townhead 30th September 2016

‘Rich countries must not become gated communities, their people averting their eyes from the bloodstains in the driveway,’ said Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, the UN high commissioner for human rights, in reference to the refugee and migrant situation. He went on to ask: ‘What can we do?’