World Refugee Day: why you should care
Right now, families around the world are running for their lives. Right now, people are leaving behind careers, homes, and loved ones just to survive. Right now, children are sitting in crowded camps wondering when they will eat again. We are facing the greatest...
From the Field: Syrians living in miserable conditions
Many Syrians have fled the violence of civil war and ISIS, but they haven’t escaped the suffering. Right now, I’m in a refugee camp on the Syrian border where families are just trying to survive. They are living in deplorable conditions … there’s trash everywhere. It...
Rescue a Syrian refugee for $35
Syria is still reeling from the chemical attack on Douma that killed around 75 people. April 7 was every Syrian’s worst nightmare — choking, gasping, fleeing for safety. And how did we respond as a nation? We debated. The Syrian people don’t need another debate about...
For $35, send food and medicine to a Syrian refugee
Lifeless bodies, babies with blue faces, and children foaming at the mouth. The images of children after the recent chemical attack on Douma, Syria, are hard to witness. Maybe that’s part of the reason why most news outlets have moved on to other stories now that the...
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