UN Volunteers put people first
On the frontlines of the Afghan refugee crisis in Pakistan, stands Farah Ismail, a UN Volunteer with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Farah’s daily work ensures that refugees receive humanitarian aid and basic human services they urgently need. As a Palestinian Farah knows well what it’s like to be a refugee. Both her parents were forced to leave their homes and rely on humanitarian aid for their survival.
"My father and his family were forcefully displaced from Palestine to Jordan in 1948 when the state of Israel was established. My mother and maternal family fled from Palestine to Jordan during the Six Day War in 1967, this has inspired me to pursue a humanitarian career in service of refugees in particular," she says.