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Refuge for refugees

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Everyday millions of people around the world are forced to flee their homes. They have to leave everything behind and look forward to a bleak future, if they have a future. Can you imagine leaving behind everything you know and love? And be forced to flee inorder to survive? Well, I can't imagine it. The refugees who flee not only do they leave their homes, but their families too. Families are torn apart with the uncertainty that they will ever see their loved ones again. They have suffered tremendous loss in the process. Some have nothing and no one left to return too. Others have to live with their grief. But they still show considerable resilience. The story of refugees was all over the media. Refugees looking for refuge. Some were welcomed with love, others hate. The world seems to see refugees as a bad omen. Unwanted, Terrorists, just because they are fleeing terrorism. But can't people see that they are ordinary human beings looking for new homes for their families?  for ...