UNHCR also maintains large refugee camps in India, Tanzania, Uganda, South Sudan, Mauritania, Jordan, Gaza and Ethiopia<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Personally, as a person of first-world privilege, I admit that I find these numbers unfathomable. To make the statistics relatable, I have to resort to a rather small-minded, ethnocentric comparison with cities I\u2019ve been to: \u00a0Lebanon, for example, is hosting as many people as currently live in San Antonio, TX. If everyone living in Cleveland OH left the city, that number would equal Chad\u2019s refugee population.<\/p>\n

The conditions that have forced these people to run for their lives, and for the lives of their families, are as scary as they come. Can any of us sitting comfortably in front of our computers reading this imagine ourselves on the run, or living in the conditions the refugees are enduring? I can\u2019t. I know, too, that writing about this situation isn\u2019t much. But at the very least, we owe it to these other human beings to know that they exist and to reach beyond ourselves to try to help.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Syrians\u20144.8 million of them–constitute the largest segment of the current world refugee population.\u00a0 But there are many other refugees \u201416+ million — who are<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":36338,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,384,2921],"tags":[2577,2507],"yoast_head":"\n