75 refugees will be brought to Iceland in 2019
The Icelandic government met last week to discuss supporting refugees after the Refugee Committee and UN Refugee Agency UNHCR, collaborated to provide...
A dictionary for immigrants by young pioneers
Brothers Mohamed Kouwatli and Yossed Kouatli are working on a dictionary meant to help immigrants in Iceland and the local population better understan...
Aleppo Kebab to open in Akureyri
Spring comes with a new addition to the culinary flora of Akureyri, a town of 18000 in northern Iceland. Some of the Syrian refugees settling in Akure...
Icelanders come face to face with refugees (Video)
The Icelandic division of Amnesty International published a video were Icelanders sit across from fugitives that have been granted asylum in Iceland. ...
Syrian families visit the presidential residency in Bessastadir
President Guðni Th. Johannesson and his family welcomed the newest group of Syrian refugees accepted by the Icelandic Government to settle in Iceland ...
Volunteers teaching Syrian families Icelandic
Refugees from Syria have been able to attend Icelandic lessons given by members of public in the town of Akureyri for the past month, the proje...
Unaccompanied refugee children need foster homes
Thirty individuals and families have come forward offering to foster unaccompanied refugee children after an outreach from the Government Agency for C...
Becoming Icelandic – A family from Syria
A Syrian family was granted a residence permit on humanitarian grounds this week for one year. They hope for a future in Iceland, and are expecting th...