TODAY THERE ARE OVER 43.7 MILLION REFUGEES AND INTERNALLY DISPLACED PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD. They are ordinary people who have become wanderers in an instant . . . fleeing from conflict, war, famine, disaster, or persecution that has overtaken their homelands. Six...
As World Help prepares for World Refugee Day on June 20, we are urgently working to increase the awareness of innocent victims of violence, war, and displacement. The Syrian refugee crisis is the largest in the world today . . . and not enough is being done about it....
The world is beginning to turn its back on the Syrian people. Many NGO’s on the ground in Syria and neighboring countries are packing up and shipping out, unable to continue their work due to lack of funding. To make matters worse, international diplomacy is slow to...
In Syria, access to medical care is virtually nonexistent. Hospitals and clinics have been forced to move underground, having become direct targets of the regime army. Doctors have fled for their lives, knowing that if they are found aiding civilians, they will be...
Today, I spent the day at the Za’atari Refugee Camp near the Syrian border, a windblown tent city in the Jordanian desert. A sea of tents several miles long stretches as far as the eye can see, holding 80,000 desperate refugees . . . with multitudes more pouring in...