World Refugee Day

In 2018, UNHCR estimated that there were 70.8 million people forcibly displaced worldwide. In 2019 the number had risen to 79.5 million and, of that number, it is estimated that 30-34 million are CHILDREN – that’s more than the entire populations of Australia, Denmark and Mongolia combined. The number is going up, it's going in the wrong direction ☹.

And whilst the numbers sound awful enough, bear in mind that these numbers are not just numbers, not just points on a graph, or data fed into a statistics analysis. 

Each number is a person – a man, a woman, a child; mothers, fathers, husbands, wives, grandparents, grandchildren, brothers, sisters, sons, daughters.  Each number is someone who is loved, but due to the circumstances that they find themselves in is struggling to find the love in the world as they flee from conflict, persecution, terror.

One of the organisations that CRED partners with is ILA-Uganda, an incredible organisation that gives support to both Internally Displaced People, and to South Sudanese refugees in Uganda. It is an honour to be a very small part of their story, and on this day I encourage you to find out more about what they, and other similarly-focused organisations are doing. https://www.ilauganda.org/change-the-story

To see the full report released by UNHCR today go to: https://www.unhcr.org/globaltrends2019/

 

with thanks to UNHCR, Tricia deBoer and ILA for photos and background data