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Refugee Crisis

Innovative solutions help refugees in need worldwide

Through innovative responses to refugee crises, World Vision is investing in a better life today and a better future for refugees, especially children. Learn what innovation solutions World Vision is implementing in refugee camps.

Refugee Crisis
Bangladesh

Venezuelan migrants walking through Colombia try to hitch a ride. They crossed the border at Cucuta, Colombia, early in the day and walked through the city. The road takes them through steep terrain and high elevations where nights are often below freezing. Every Venezuela migrant has a deeply personal story about why and how they left their country. They say after months and years of struggling to make ends meet, there came a turning point.

From the Field

Venezuela migrants share their stories about why they left

Every Venezuela migrant has a deeply personal story about why and how they left their country. They say after months and years of struggling to make ends meet, there came a turning point. Discover some of their stories.

Refugee Crisis
Colombia

For 12 hours, we walk with 5-year-old Jannatul through what a typical day might look like for her as a Rohingya refugee child in a camp in Bangladesh.

From the Field

A day in the life of a Rohingya refugee child

Jannatul is a 5-year-old Rohingya refugee girl. For 12 hours, we walk with her through what a typical day might look like for her as a Rohingya refugee child in a camp in Bangladesh.

Refugee Crisis
Bangladesh

People walk away from Venezuela and across the Tachira River to Colombia.

Voices

‘Nobody wants to leave home and the people they love’

World Vision U.S. President Edgar Sandoval Sr. learned something true of all people: Nobody wants to leave home and the people they love. It’s tough to start over in an unfamiliar and often unwelcoming place, where you’re not treated the same as others and you have to work twice as hard for everything. But his situation was a far cry from the way some people leave their homes today.

Refugee Crisis

Jannatul, 5, and her mother, Salima, walk home from a World Vision Child-friendly Space in the refugee camp where they live in Bangladesh. Close to 1 million people live in the refugee camps in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. Most have fled their homeland since August 2017.

Special Features

Citizens of nowhere

AUG. 15, 2019, BANGLADESH — Rohingya refugees have fled Myanmar and settled in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh. There, World Vision is helping provide support.

Refugee Crisis
Bangladesh

Here are five ways you and your kids can help refugees. Learn together and engage your children on an issue you care about.

Change Makers

5 ways you and your kids can help refugees

Here are five meaningful activities that can help your kids help refugees fleeing crises like Syria, South Sudan, and Myanmar. Take your pick and choose an activity to do, or make it a challenge to do all five.

Refugee Crisis
SyriaMyanmarSouth Sudan

Refugee crises around the world are taking a huge toll on families and children. Here are some steps for how to talk about refugees with your kids and how you can help.

Change Makers

How to talk to kids about refugees

Stories in the news show children and families who’ve endured tragic loss, terrifying violence, or painful injury. Experts widely agree that parents should shield young children from violent and disturbing news. But how can you explain the global refugee crisis in age-appropriate terms and help them become informed and empowered to help?

Refugee Crisis

Special Features

Love breaks through in Lebanon

FEB. 22, 2019, LEBANON — Many Lebanese churches are providing critical social care and a powerful witness to the inclusive and transforming love of Jesus Christ to Syrian refugees.

Christian Faith Stories
LebanonSyriaMiddle East

Refugees from Myanmar walk among a landscape of makeshift shelters and tents in a refugee camp in Bangladesh. The refugee crisis in Bangladesh is one of the worst disasters of 2018.

From the Field

7 of the worst disasters in 2018

As these seven of the worst disasters in 2018 show us, children and families around the world experienced tremendous pain and suffering this past year. But there remains a glimmer of light in each of them. Hope has not been snuffed out.