- # We are Standing Strong with Refugees
Rise For Refugees~Taezia, is about giving comfort, and happiness and helping refugees feel acculturated in India seamlessly or with support. Refugees who have been forced to flee from their homes, their motherland, and close ones certainly deserve our respect for their will to live, for their will to survive against all odds such as terrorists, political upheavals, and human massacres. When we take our homes and hearth for granted, refugees leave theirs with nothing but “hope”.
Let us all come together and spread awareness about the plight and sufferings of Rohingya, Afghan, Somalian, Congo, and many other refugee communities and make them realize that the torture they go through, hurts us too!
The refugees come from a land ravaged by lingering and chronic conflict. Compelled to leave their homes, many have no idea if they will ever return but this doesn’t stop them from keeping their culture alive in an unknown land and help them adapt in a country they’re seeking refuge which they now call their home.
Support refugees with a financial donation for them.
Volunteer your time and skills to directly assist refugees.
Advocate for refugee rights and welfare by raising awareness
Organize events that can raise funds and support them.
We are the face of society. We are the hopeful changemakers. We are a team inspired to create sustainable opportunities for refugee communities in our country in our minuscule capacity with the support and selfless guidance of UNHCR’s implementing agency Bosco.
An avid photographer, I try to capture moods and moments through every snapshot I take. India’s rich and ancient past motivated me to promote its heritage through my coffee table book on photographs of treasured sculptures in association with the Archaeological Society of India. A voracious reader and a business student having diverse interests, I was a part of the Economics Society governing body at Scripps College, Los Angeles, and a selected volunteer to promote campus engagement at IILM, Lodhi Road, Delhi. My keen interest in economics fuelled my education to pursue a Micromasters course at Harvard University. Having a foundation in Liberal Arts Education, forming interdisciplinary linkages comes naturally to me, and my passion for Indian Classical Dance, Odissi is a medium to express subdued emotions, transform our thoughts, and spread the message of awareness and humanity. Being referred to as a soft-spoken girl throughout my school life, I have developed a strong ability to observe all that is happening around me.
After completing my master’s at IE University in Spain just a year ago and gaining that global perspective, I am now serving as a strategy leader at PACE 360, a global asset management company. My strong passion and desire to make a social impact in the society we’re living in, made me look for different opportunities and avenues to give back to society and helped me give rise to this initiative with my twin sister. Rise for Refugees is a project very close to my heart that aims to uplift the refugees with the hope of making them self-reliant.
Although I am still waiting for the moments that can be written in bold in my life’s journey, there have been events that I can highlight with much pride. First of which is my association with the UNHCR-funded refugee rehabilitation center in Delhi, India. The ability to empathize is one of my biggest assets making me realize what it is like to be a refugee. I could sense their feeling of insecurity, of being lonely in a crowd, of being treated with contempt, and of being discriminated against day in and day out. I felt a deep sense of injustice within me.
Similarly, when I was an international student pursuing my undergrad at The University of Southern California, I observed international students did not feel too motivated to vote for on-campus student government elections and students of the same cities tend to cluster together in college and are apprehensive about making new friends which negates the concept of studying amidst diversity. This motivated me to join the Undergraduate Student Government and encouraged me to bring forward international students to feel an integral part of USC and promote diversity and inclusion on campus. The opportunity to work as a cord between the college administration and students as an international student with empathy, knowledge, and awareness about student needs was an immensely learning and evolutionary experience.
After gaining tremendous experience in the US post-graduation at the largest asset management company in the world, Blackrock, our sole mission and purpose is to secure the present and future of refugees taking solace in India by acculturating them and empowering them to be financially secure.
“This country will not be a good place for any of us to live in unless we make it a good place for all of us to live in.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
