“Mostly, I miss my best friend; we were like sisters. We would talk on the phone for hours when we weren’t at school together. I don’t know where she is now.”

This is the first-person narrative of a young Syrian refugee, an aspiring lawyer from Aleppo; as read by Margot Robbie, it becomes an even more powerful evocation of the displacement and heartbreak felt by millions of refugees around the world. Robbie and other notable celebrity voices to bring visibility to stories of those fleeing violence, persecution, conflict, and war in a new project by Oxfam called “I Hear You.” Oxfam—a global movement of people working to end the injustices of poverty through providing food, clean water, new toilets, and legal aid to refugees in 20 countries—has joined together Robbie, Anna Camp, Minnie Driver, John Cho, Al Madrigal, Gael Garcia Bernal, and more famous faces to help share these narratives. Six of these videos are premiering below, exclusively at VF.com.

“More than 65 million people around the world have been forced to leave their homes because of violence, persecution, and war,” said Oxfam president Raymond Offenheiser in a statement. “These are not just numbers. These are people, with individual stories just like every one of us. Now is a time for solidarity and compassion; not a time to close our minds, our hearts, or our borders.”

For Driver, this project aims to bring people together in their activism and their concerns for the state of the world and the well-being of refugees from Syria and other countries.

“I hope that this project helps to remind people of their fundamental humanity and the kindness and love we can and must extend to one another,” she said. “Love is better than anything.”

Margot Robbie

Robbie shares the story of a 17-year-old girl, who dreamed of going to law school but had to pack away her books and assignments after her college was bombed. “I want to defend the oppressed,” Robbie reads. The young girl, who had to escape her home for fear of being in danger, says she even misses the strict, mean English teacher in school: “After all, if she didn’t care about my education, she wouldn’t be so mean, right?” The girl says that while she never saw any women who were lawyers in her town, she knew, without a doubt that this was and still is her goal: “It is having no education that is very hard for me. I really would have liked to have continued my studies.”

Al Madrigal

Actor Al Madrigal reads a story of a man who inherited land from his father, built a house on it with his brother, and grew cherry trees on his land—until their home was bombed. “We were afraid we were all going to die down there—all of us, the whole family,” the man says of the night he and his family had to hide in the basement from harm. “We decided we can’t all die.”

Anna Camp

“On our marriage day, I had a very beautiful wedding dress,” Anna Camp opens as she read the story of a woman whose husband died seven months after her wedding day. While living in a refugee camp, the woman had a dress made out of fabric she bought with her earnings as a wash coordinator. But even her dress is not her most favorite possession—on the very top is her jerry can for clean water. “Keeps your water safe and clean. You won’t be alive to wear a pretty dress if you don’t have clean water.”

Gael Garcia Bernal

Gael Garcia Bernal reads the account of a poet, now a refugee, who had a crush on a woman in his class. He wrote poetry for her but never told her. Once the two finally expressed their feelings for each other—with a few miscommunications in between—it became clear that the two, coming from different worlds, could never be a couple. “Most of the time, I let my mind roam,” he said. “Sometimes the mind can function, and it’s the heart that takes over. Some things belong to the heart.”

John Cho

“We have nothing—no books, or pens, or papers for the kids, so I’ve developed my own way of teaching; I had to do it,” John Cho reads of the story of a young teacher who still works to deliver lessons to his students in the refugee camps. He remembers a life in Syria where they had houses, hospitals, and schools. He dreams of a life once they return—a better life. “Even though you find us sitting on the floor, we are not like this. This is not us—to live in tents.”

Minnie Driver

“We used to rent a cottage by the sea,” Minnie Driver reads of a stay-at-home mom whose family lost everything when their home was bombed. Now, she has to watch her smart children live daily without the chance to get an education in the camp. “I love my kids so much; they deserve better than this.”

For the full set of videos, visit oxfamamerica.org.