{"id":3846,"date":"2016-09-01T10:52:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T17:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/?page_id=3846"},"modified":"2017-09-21T00:03:52","modified_gmt":"2017-09-21T07:03:52","slug":"refugees","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.worldvision.org\/our-work\/refugees","title":{"rendered":"Helping Refugees"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row][vc_column][vc_text_separator title=&rdquo;Helping Refugees&rdquo; color=&rdquo;wv-dark-grey&rdquo;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image=&rdquo;14002&Prime; img_size=&rdquo;full&rdquo; alignment=&rdquo;center&rdquo;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column offset=&rdquo;vc_col-md-offset-2 vc_col-md-8&Prime;][vc_column_text]<strong>Imagine raising&nbsp;your children in a war zone.<\/strong> You would do anything to keep them safe, protect them from&nbsp;the horrors of war, and&nbsp;keep them from&nbsp;being killed in the crossfire.<\/p>\n<p>Worldwide, nearly 65&nbsp;million people have had to leave&nbsp;their homes because <strong>it was too dangerous to stay<\/strong>. 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