Look at any of the world’s media sources today and it is impossible to miss a story about the ever increasing number of refugees across the globe. Forced to flee their countries of origin due to hardship, war or simply a desire to provide a better standard of life for themselves and their families, many often find themselves in a worse situation than the one they had originally fled.
According to statistics released by the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, in 2004 alone there were over 21.3 million displaced persons in the world. Of these over eight million were children and over seven million of these refugees had been living in detention camps for ten years or more.
