{"id":122,"date":"2025-08-07T23:38:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T06:38:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/?p=122"},"modified":"2025-08-29T14:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-29T21:14:21","slug":"exploring-refugee-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/2025\/08\/07\/exploring-refugee-support\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring Refugee Support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"alignwide-wrap\" data-block=\"image\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image alignwide size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/files\/2025\/08\/COMMUNITY-TALKS-DIGI-SCREEN-1024x576.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/files\/2025\/08\/COMMUNITY-TALKS-DIGI-SCREEN-1024x576.png 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/files\/2025\/08\/COMMUNITY-TALKS-DIGI-SCREEN-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/files\/2025\/08\/COMMUNITY-TALKS-DIGI-SCREEN-768x432.png 768w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/files\/2025\/08\/COMMUNITY-TALKS-DIGI-SCREEN.png 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"alignwide-wrap\" data-block=\"heading\">\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading alignwide\">Event Details<\/h3>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Date: February 7, 2023<br>Time: 2:00 pm &#8211; 2:50 pm<br>Location: The Great Hall, AMS Student Nest (Room 2404)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Speakers:<br><strong>Wilfred Thariki (Former UN, African Union Commision)<\/strong><br><strong>Loren Balisky (Kinbrace Society)<\/strong><br><strong>Nathalie Lozano-Neira (LEVEL)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2139\ufe0f This talk brought speakers together to share stories of how they got involved in refugee-related work, including their own stories of seeking refuge. 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2:50 pmLocation: The Great Hall, AMS Student Nest (Room 2404) Speakers:Wilfred Thariki (Former UN, African Union Commision)Loren Balisky (Kinbrace Society)Nathalie Lozano-Neira (LEVEL) \u2139\ufe0f This talk brought speakers together to share stories&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/2025\/08\/07\/exploring-refugee-support\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Exploring Refugee Support&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":87022,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/87022"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":365,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122\/revisions\/365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/celtalks\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}