Aside from its pool of high-profile Goodwill Ambassadors, UNHCR has a wide range of supporters around the world, ranging from royalty and celebrities to students, academics and ordinary members of the public. The agency even works with a cartoon superhero, the South Korean Robot Taekwon V.

For the most part, our supporters are ordinary citizens: volunteers and students who help arrange activities on World Refugee Day and at other times of the year, teachers, academics who debate and write on refugee issues, prominent refugees and many others. 

Best-selling author and former refugee Khaled Hosseini has joined World Refugee Day events and traveled to his native Afghanistan and to Chad to raise awareness about refugees and returnees. American actor, Ben Affleck, directed a short film about uprooted Congolese civilians for UNHCR's “Gimme Shelter” campaign accompanied by the classic Rolling Stones track, thanks to permission from Sir Mick Jagger. Chicago Bulls basketball player, Luol Deng, who fled his native South Sudan as a child, has been supporting UNHCR's ninemillion.org campaign, which raised funds to provide education and sports activities for millions of young refugees around the world. 

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