Today the world recognizes the challenges faced by the 43.7 million people displaced from their homes by disasters & conflicts & traumatizing violence…  World Refugee Day comes once a year, but the refugees and internally displaced persons have often spent many years far from their homes, their countries & all that is dear…

Today’s report from UNHCR notes that roughly 80% of the world’s refugees are hosted by developing countries (vs. the wealthy, industrialized $$ ones!)  Like the refugee camps for the Congolese in western Tanzania…

So often, refugees leave everything behind (what’s not rubble may be hard to find)…

I’ve met so many refugees who – despite horrific trauma, loss, hardship(s) –  inspire all those around them with hope.  Living roses in the rubble they are & more…

So today – and every day – remember the refugees around the world forced into homelessness, living with fears… do what you can to alleviate their tears.

grace, peace & Refugees

Virginia