By: Caio Ribeiro, Bernardo Menezes, João Marcos Correia and Valentina Santos

According to ACNUR, more than 89 million citizens from the current world are refugees. Refugees are those people that must flee from their country because they are in a dangerous situation. Some of the reasons why they must leave are: religion, politics, opinions, war, persecution, and intolerance. Because of these situations, they go out to look for better conditions and a safe place to live. Even with this huge number of refugees nowadays, some people still disrespect them. So, to preserve their rights and guarantee a better world, we need to spread information about them. Here, we have some famous people that had to flee their countries during their lives:

Caio Ribeiro

Name: Sergey Brin

Profession: Computer scientist

Birth date: August 21st, 1973

Homeland: Moscow, Russia

Reasons to leave the place: War in Russia in 1973

Country that he/she went: United States Of America

Reasons why he/she went there: Take a safe place to live

Country that he/she lives nowadays: Los Altos Hills, Santa Clara, United States of America

Curiosities about him/her:

• He has today approximately $86.3B
• He has a wife ( Nicole Shanahan ) and 1 son: Benji Wojin ( 12/2008 ) and 1 daughter: Chloe Wojin ( 01/2011 )
• When he was born, his family was jewish

Bernardo Menezes

Name: Luka Modric

Profession: Soccer player

Birth date: 09/09/1985               

Homeland: Zadar, Croatia

Reasons to leave the place: He left Croatia, because his grandfather was killed in his home court by the Serbian offensive.

Country that he/she went: A small village of Modrici

Reasons why he/she went there: To play soccer

Country that he/she lives nowadays: Spain

Curiosities about him/her:

• He is the number 10 of Croatia national team
• He plays in Real Madrid
• He was champion of the Champions League

João Marcos Correia

Name: Jackie Chan

Profession: actor

Birth date: April 7th 1954

Homeland: Hong Kong, China 

Reasons to leave the place: China’s civil war

Country that he/she went: Australia

Reasons why he/she went there: he is not a refugee. His parents are.

Country that he/she lives nowadays: United States

Curiosities about him/her:

• He has a star with his name on the Walk of Fame 
• He made more than 100 films. 
• On 2015 he was the highest paid actor in the world

Valentina Santos

Name: Rita Ora

Profession: Singer

Birth date: November 26th 1990

Homeland: Pristina Kosovo

Reasons to leave the place: fleeing persecution of Albanians in the former Yugoslavia, which meant that his mother and father, a psychiatrist and an economist, had to seek shelter in another country. 

Country that he/she went: London . England

Reasons why he/she went there: Because her father loves London’s culture.

Country that he/she lives nowadays:  London

Curiosities about him/her: 

• Rita Ora loves fishing
• Rita Ora starred in “50 Shades of Gray” as Christian Grey’s sister. 
• Elena Ora is Rita Ora’s sister 

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