#teamrefugee

Meet the #teamrefugee at the 2016 Olympics in Rio!

"This is the first time in the history of the Games that an entire team has been composed of refugees – without a motherland, without a home, but with a purpose. They are now official Olympians. They live in the Olympic village. They will run, swim and grapple with gold medallists. They might even become medallists themselves.

But the road to Rio wasn’t paved with gold for any of them. In a world where so many refugees are treated as less than human, called “terrorists” and, in some particularly ignorant columns, “cockroaches”, getting to an Olympic challenge is no easy feat. And that’s assuming you survive escaping your own country in the first place." (source)