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Over 600,000 Syrian refugees are currently in Jordan, 80% of whom live in urban areas among Jordanian neighbors.  In February the ̽����ѡ organized a two-week social-therapy workshop at our women's center in the city of Irbid that brought together Syrian refugee teenagers and their Jordanian counterparts.

In these extraordinary times, the world needs courageous leadership. That is what the ̽����ѡ 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.

Conflict and drought have brought millions of people in East Africa to the brink of starvation in what is shaping up to be the most severe humanitarian crisis of our time.

This month, the ̽����ѡ's crisis news roundup looks at record-low refugee admissions in the U.S., the thousands of people fleeing Venezuela, and the difficulties stopping the spread of Ebola in the Democratic Republic Congo.