"It was a wonderful experience interacting with you and appreciate the way you have planned and executed the whole publication process within the agreed timelines.”
Subrat SaurabhAuthor of Kuch Woh PalChallenges. Fear. Uncertainty.
We all face it. We all want to overcome it and strive for greatness.
What stops us still?
Refugee Changemakers traces the journey of 13 individuals, who were taken to the brink of these feelings but turned their misery into a mission to create a positive change in their community - the Netherlands – where they live now.
“I was walking, and people were dying in front of my eyes; hundreds of corpses lay untouched.”
– A survivor fleeing from Aleppo
She looks at a mother carrying her little boy in her arms - the baby has fainted. “Why would the mother bring her baby on this death trip?”
– A mother on a boat in the Mediterranean
“We talk about each other, but we don’t talk to each other. I started a radio channel to facilitate a dialogue between Syrians and the local community.”
– Founder, local Radio channel
“I want to give hope and encouragement to as many people as I can with my actions and words.”
– First female refugee entrepreneur in the Netherlands
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Apoorva Mittal
Apoorva Mittal is a graduate in business and finance from Australia. She has completed an Entrepreneurship and Innovation course from Stanford University, Graduate school of Business, and studied Creative Writing at Oxford University. Now, as a Medill Scholar, she is pursuing MS in Journalism at Northwestern University, Chicago.
She first worked as a consultant on social sector projects in the field of education and skill development and later as an Engagement Manager for the student community spread across 800 schools and a million students, at a leading educational technology company in New Delhi.
She also worked at Thrive India, for their media vertical, where she interviewed leaders in well-being, corporate and academia.
Refugee Changemakers, from displaced to indispensable, is her first book, which documents the journey of thirteen immigrants from Syria, Iraq, Eritrea, Uganda, Sierra Leone and Rwanda to the Netherlands. Two of the stories from the book were featured in an Integration Index report by UN Academic Impact and Media Tenor, which was launched at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2018.
Apoorva has spoken at a refugee forum in Berlin and supported in inter-faith dialogue at the Vatican City. In her free time, she loves to write Haiku form of poetry.
Website: www.apoorvamittal.com
