Weanne Estrada

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261 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

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Tony Mantor: Why Not Me ? · Weanne Estrada:Mental Health Without Borders: How Compassion, Culture, and Community Transform Lives Worldwide · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

And it just like humanizes these people in my eyes.

So I think really the first step is awareness and getting to know your neighbor and seeing them as human, I think is a great first step.

Yes.

So this story is, it does start out a little tragic.

So I had the opportunity of interviewing some refugees who had been displaced.

They had traveled to Greece and this were because they were members of the LGBT community and they came from countries where being part of that community was a death sentence.

So this particular person, he was a refugee and his story was that he was kicked out of his village because he was gay.

And then when he tried to return back to his village, and this is quite tragic, he returned to his house being burnt by the villagers with his family inside the house.

And he found out that because there was a misconception in that community that being gay can be infectious, they decided to kill his whole family.

And so he escaped and he, you know, he made it through foot and then he rode on a dinghy on a boat and made his way to Athens.

But then he met a donor there who spoke to him about how do you want to move forward from here?

And his story was that he decided, I want to be able to help other people.

I want to be able to help refugees in this area find shelter.

I want to be able to give them language lessons.

I want to be able to help them find gainful employment.

And so this man was able to take

the pain from his experiences and transform it into a way to help other people.

So I believe that that story really stuck with me.

But also, I think another story that goes to your second question of, you know, what's something that was revealing.

I remember asking one of these refugees once,

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