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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-line-height-alt:0pt"><a href="http://e.savethechildren.org/a/hBbJN$pB8yKeXB9pOALAAEMh80U/wrd1" target="null"><span style="font-size:1.0pt;color:blue;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="599" height="400" id="_x0000_i1025" src="http://f.e.savethechildren.org/i/30/2093524887/STC_e1_15fps.gif" alt="WORLD REFUGEE DAY
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;line-height:21.75pt"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:TradeGothicW02-BoldCn20;color:#222221;text-transform:uppercase">What is a Refugee? 5 IMPORTANT FACTS<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;line-height:16.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:GillSansInfantW01">The word refugee come from the word refuge – “the state of being sheltered from pursuit, danger or difficulty”</span><a href="https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/refuge" target="_blank" title="Oxford Dictionary"><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:GillSansInfantW01;color:#009CA6">1</span></sup></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:GillSansInfantW01">.
Refugees are people who are seeking a safe haven, forced to flee violence, persecution and war. A global definition of refugees was recognized in the Geneva Convention
</span><a href="http://www.un.org/en/genocideprevention/documents/atrocity-crimes/Doc.33_GC-IV-EN.pdf" target="_blank" title="Geneva Convention PDF"><sup><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:GillSansInfantW01;color:#009CA6">2</span></sup></a><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:GillSansInfantW01">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;line-height:16.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:GillSansInfantW01">In the wake of World War 2, the Geneva Convention was adopted to protect all human beings from atrocities such as those
committed during the war. Millions suffered torture and systematic genocide during the war including Jewish, Romani and disabled people, as well as those with sexual and gender identities that did not conform to the Nazi German norms.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;line-height:16.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:GillSansInfantW01">Today, millions of refugees have no place to call home. Chased by bullets and bombs, children and families are literally
running for their lives from chemical attacks, religious persecution and horrific violence. More than 11 million children are refugees worldwide.3<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;line-height:16.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:GillSansInfantW01">Politics and terrorism may be dominating headlines these days, but the harsh reality is that even though the refugee crisis
rarely makes news, it hasn’t gone away. In fact it’s more important than ever to remember that refugees are people, just like you and me, who need our help.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;line-height:18.75pt"><b><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:TradeGothicW02-BoldCn20;color:#222221;text-transform:uppercase">Here Are Five Things You Might Not Know About Refugees<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;line-height:16.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:GillSansInfantW01">1.While the word refugee is generally spoken in the context of Syria or the Middle East, you would be surprised to know
that the world’s largest refugee settlement is now in Uganda. Before this year, Dadaab refugee camp in Kenya was the largest, home to over 245,000 people.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;line-height:16.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:GillSansInfantW01">In the last year, unimaginable violence in South Sudan has caused close to one million people to flee the country, more
than 800,000 into Uganda, with most settling in Bidibidi refugee settlement. One South Sudanese mother who was lucky to escape reported that women are forced at gunpoint to strap their babies to their backs, walk in a river and drown themselves. People are
walking hundreds of miles to find safety. We have met men and women who have even become foster parents to children who have lost their own parents in South Sudan or along the route to Uganda.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;line-height:16.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:GillSansInfantW01">2. Half of refugees are under 18 and half of refugee children aren’t in school. Parents tell us that education for their
kids is one of the main reasons they flee conflict, yet it can takes months or even years to get children back into the classroom. Going to school provides children with a sense of normalcy and a place to process the various traumas that they may have experienced
and it also provides them with the best chance for a fulfilling future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;line-height:16.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:GillSansInfantW01">3. Most refugees don’t live in camps. One of the images that might come to mind when thinking about refugees is a vast
field filled with rows of tents or trailers. For most refugees, however, this is not the reality. As many as 76% of refugees live in non-camp settings, sometimes giving greater autonomy but also making it harder to reach essential services. Lebanon, for example,
hosts more than a million refugees—the largest number of refugees as a proportion of its national population, and there is no formal camp system.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;line-height:16.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:GillSansInfantW01">4. Some refugee families have been “twice displaced.” For example, some Somali people fled their country’s civil war in
the 1980s and found a home in Syria. But the war in Syria forced them to flee to Turkey and other neighboring countries. Similar stories can be found among Palestinians, Iraqis, and many other nationalities.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;line-height:16.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:GillSansInfantW01">5. More than 4,500 children have arrived in Italy through the Mediterranean this year—nearly 4,000 were unaccompanied.
When people do make it to shore, the asylum process is often confusing and lengthy. Last week in Greece I met a family who escaped the bombing of their house in Syria and made it to the island of Chios only to have their asylum application rejected.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;line-height:16.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:GillSansInfantW01">While these facts are not positive, the good news that Americans do support refugees and there is a way to help. Save
the Children just conducted a survey asking Americans what they know and think about refugees.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;line-height:16.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:GillSansInfantW01">A full 80% of people agree that all refugee children deserve an education. Nearly three in four people believe it is important
to help refugee children abroad as well as refugee families who have settled in the United States, even though only 22% of people say they definitely know a refugee.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:.25in;line-height:16.0pt"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:GillSansInfantW01">Until we are able to end the conflicts that cause people to become refugees in the first place, reminding your elected
officials that refugees are people, they matter, and you support them is critical to helping refugee children and families be safe and know that they have a future.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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