Growing up, I was a quiet, reserved, fairly shy girl, happier studying than socializing. I wasn’t one of the cool kids, or athletically inclined, so doing well academically became my ‘thing’.

Dear friends,Ramadan Mubarak, and welcome back to ’30 days 30 deeds’! I’m excited to be back on this journey with all of you, and particularly excited for this year’s theme

Being a cross-cultural parent in Washington can mean teaching your children the Koran — and then carpooling them to hip-hop class.

This is George, outside his childhood home in Mclean. His mom Evelyn lived here for 65 years, until she died last year at age 96. George wanted to donate all the furniture to the Afghan refuge

Blanche Porway, a Holocaust survivor, would have been 95 years old next month; she passed away a few weeks ago. In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day,

This was our original plan: my parents would come from NJ to our home in DC a few days before Eid so we could celebrate the last days of Ramadan together and have a family Eid with my in-laws, cousins and extended family.

Half of all refugees are children; that's more than 10 million children. It's hard to imagine that number; so instead just imagine these little kids whom we had the pleasure of meeting at camps in Greece.

Each Ramadan for the past seven years, I’ve been keeping a blog to share the essence of the month. Ramadan is about so much more than just not eating or drinking; it’s about gratitude

They were taking out every item from their tent and piling it on the dirt outside, when we arrived - mattresses, pots and pans, bags of clothes, food items, stuffed toys.

On World Refugee Day, a video about the importance of getting to know each other as people, not as labels. Thank you for following the '30 days 30 deeds' blog and reading

We met Hoda at a camp for the most vulnerable in Lesbos; she had been living in a tent there for the past six months, with her three sons, 5, 9 and 13, one of whom has severe autism

KindWorks hosted a welcome dinner for refugee families a few months ago; it was part of a nationwide effort called Refugees Welcome ❤️ . We invited eight families from Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan

Heres' a photo journey through one of KindWorks' apartment set ups - an amazing coming together of community to set up homes for families who've had to flee their own.

Alexa was nervous about this week’s refugee apartment set up, she couldn’t sleep at night thinking about it. The moving company that had previously helped us wasn’t available, and there was an Afghani

Athens, GreeceMeet one of the young boys at the refugee camp who simply captured our hearts. He came straight up to us, shook our hands and said ‘nice to meet you’, with a smile so sweet

Mohamad was starting to whip fresh cream in a donated stainless steal mixer when we arrived - a quart of heavy cream, nine spoons of sugar, and a pinch of vanilla whirring

The walls are covered in the plywood type material used in falafel stands in refugee camps around the world, photos of refugees line one wall, the other has a list of common recipe ingredients

Mohammad desires three things: a good school for his children; an opportunity to do the work he loves in interior decoration; and the chance to play the tambor again