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We’re calling on Home Secretary Priti Patel to do more to welcome refugees from Ukraine.

Few arrive at their destinations with anything but the necessities of life. The ̽����ѡ asked a mother, a child, a teenager, a pharmacist, an artist, and a family of 31 to share the contents of their bags and show us what they managed to hold on to from their homes. Their possessions tell stories about their past and their hopes for the future.

When violent clashes broke out in Mali in 2012, thousands of people were forced to flee their homes. Up to 50,000 sought refuge in Niger, often with little more than the clothes on their backs.