As one starts working with a refugee family, it’s a natural question to wonder what circumstances led them to flee their home, their community, and their country. Obviously something that is incomprehensible to most living in the first world. With language barriers, it’s difficult to communicate. A volunteer working with the Kasongo’s spent some time learning their story. As best she understood, this is their heart-wrenching story; a 9 months long ordeal with very difficult and trying situations. The hand of God preserved them and reunited their family after being separated in a violent part of the world. Warning, there are difficult subjects in their story, though graphic details are not included. Here’s a powerful video from some great musicians on the plight of refugees.
Here is the Kasongo’s story…