Bryan Person and KulA few months ago I met Kul. He is a recent immigrant, has three kids, speaks decent English, and works a transport job at an area hospital.

But that’s just his Twitter-like bio. Things get much more interesting when you start digging into his story.

Kul is one of 200 Bhutanese refugees now living in Austin, allowed to immigrate here last fall after spending 18 years — or about half his life — in the purgatory of a refugee camp in Nepal. Kul and his family are part of the Lhotshampa ethnic group from Southern Bhutan, a “forgotten people” who were stripped of their citizenship rights and forced to flee the country en masse beginning in the late 1980s.
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How you can help

USA for UNHCR works with the United Nations Refugee Agency to meet the needs of refugees, many of them with story like Kul’s, all across the globe. And leading up to this year’s World Refugee Day on Monday, June 20th, the organization is using social media — from the #BlueKey hashtag to dozens of blog posts – to get out the word about its Blue Key Campaign.

The ultimate goal: to sell 6,000 Blue Keys in support of more than 43 million refugees around the world, as well as the 6,000-plus UNHCR workers who give them food, shelter, love, and care each day.

Can you help? The cost of $5/key is small. But the act of support is a meaningful one. Get your Blue Key now!

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