Refugee by Alan Gratz: Multi-media Material

Honduran migrants leave Guatemala City, Guatemala, at sunrise on Thursday, October 18, 2018, as they make their way north toward the United States. Many of the more than 2,000 Hondurans in a migrant caravan trying to wend its way to the United States left spontaneously with little more than the clothes on their backs and what they could quickly throw into backpacks.

Moises Castillo/AP

Aboard an overloaded ship carrying more than 500 refugees, a young woman becomes an unlikely hero. This single, powerful story, told by Melissa Fleming of the UN's refugee agency, gives a human face to the sheer numbers of human beings trying to escape to better lives ... as the refugee ships keep coming ...

Q: What role do other countries, and countries not being impacted directly by the refugee crisis, have in helping deal with the pressures of global issues like this?

After looking over the photographs in this slideshow, please answer one or both of the questions below:

• What is common among all the photographs?
• What questions begin to develop in your mind as you move through the pictures regarding the people in the photos, the places that they are moving to or through and the situations that they are faced with?

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The 1939 voyage of the MS St. Louis resource.