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✓Hundreds of hungry, thirsty people in tiny boats in the middle
of the sea…
✓Lives lost trying to cross a river or get through barbed wire…
✓The humiliation they encounter when they finally think they
have made it…
✓Refugees risking death to escape harsh conditions and live a
human life are one of the world's most important problems...
So how can this problem be solved?
Refugees are people who are forced to leave their own countries
due to oppression because of differences of language, religion or polit-
ical opinion or because they belong to a specific social group. When
economic troubles in their homelands combine with concerns over secu-
rity, people want to migrate to - and live in - places they regard as more
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