Sandra, a 23-year-old Syrian refugee has lived in Croatia for nearly two years. She has done her best to integrate into her host country - learning Croatian and attending university in Zagreb. Still she feels like an outsider. ‘From my experience, Croatian people will always treat me as a foreigner and you will always be 'the other’. It is not easy for me to deal with it every day. Some days I am OK with it, but most of the time I am sick of it.’ Social isolation she is experiencing, coupled with lack of job opportunities, have made Croatia an unpopular destination for people in need of protection. In 2014 the EU registered a rise in asylum seekers but Croatia saw a decrease of 58%. Many who escape Middle East and Africa don’t choose Croatia because integration into a homogeneous society that has very few migrant communities is very challenging. To read the rest of this article as it goes on to describe how NGOs are helping refugees in a new culture click on the ‘more’ link.