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My name is Baraat and I am here in this camp with my wife and three kids. We left our country seeking a better place, and not as the helpless refugees we are now.

James has survived two bombings, a stabbing, the murder of his small son and gunmen opening fire at his front door. He and his wife and two surviving children hope to find peace and security in Europe. They have been in camps in Greece since April, 2016.

I don't want to ever go back to the sea.

Ahmed was shot twice by police as he crossed borders with his children.

Ellin met some local refugees at a gathering in August 2016, and now helps them practice English weekly at their family home.

In 2015, 10,000 vulnerable minors disappeared in the overwhelming immensity of the refugee humanitarian crisis.

Lisa Campbell, Director of Operations for NPO "Do Your Part," doesn't run a charity, she runs a small self-governing, self-reliant community.

"I am struck by what it must have represented to the man, woman, or child who wrapped themselves in these life vests and pushed off from their home continent."

"I got attacked two times. The first attack was normal. A rocket just came and went in one window and came out another. Then I was leaving one province and going to another province, I got attacked there by an RPG."

Ghazal wishes she could go to school, but now spends her time staying fit and sharing the one bicycle with the other kids in her camp.

Omed was beat up and picked on because he is from a tribe discriminated against by terrorists, and because his sister works and his mother was a teacher.

​The East African Refugee Goat Project, which leases goats to large companies for an eco-friendly form of weed control, creates jobs for refugees who help tend the goats.

His musical notoriety brought condemnation from ISIS, which banned western music. So they torched his piano.

For most, running water was a common convenience that was taken for granted.

These people have all waited and worried and waited for 12 months or more for this day.

Rasheeda kneeled despite physical pain caused by her exodus from Afghanistan.

Not concerned with what is the latest in popularity or any rite of passage, Firuzeh simply searched for shoes that fit.

Jalil was 23 years old he drowned last month in Greece

Rushte had turned her paper over and drawn what was in her heart and in her head...such a disconnect to the smile on her face!

Azim's father was killed by terrorists and his sisters were poisoned at school because they were girls.