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In these extraordinary times, the world needs courageous leadership. That is what the ̽»¨¾«Ñ¡ was founded to provide. Our first employee, Varian Fry, issued fake passports from a safe house in Nazi-occupied Marseille to help people escape persecution during WWII.

The war against Boko Haram, the world's deadliest terror group, has created massive displacement and famine-like conditions for 14.8 million people in northeastern Nigeria. Some 5.1 million people don't have access to sufficient food, and 2.8 million children are severely malnourished. If nothing changes, more than 200 children will die each day. This crisis is man-made, but the solutions are too.

The Rohingya are a stateless ethnic minority caught in the violence gripping Myanmar's Rakhine State. In less than a month, half a million people have fled to neighboring Bangladesh, making this the world's fastest-growing refugee crisis. And those who remain in camps in Rakhine live in increasingly dire conditions.