Model refugee camp to be set up at base of Washington Monument
By JACQUELINE KLIMAS • 9/27/16 11:05 AM
An international humanitarian aid group is trying to put a human face on the refugee crisis by giving Washingtonians a look inside a refugee camp this weekend.
The "Forced From Home" exhibit from Doctors Without Borders is a traveling model refugee camp that previously spent almost two weeks in New York City. Following its one-week stay at the base of the Washington Monument beginning Oct. 1, the exhibit will travel to Boston, Pittsburgh and Philadelphia.
More than 65 million people are fleeing violence in their home countries, according to Doctors Without Borders. Most come from Syria, Afghanistan and Somalia. Photos have helped humanize the crisis for the American people, including one of a drowned 3-year-old Syrian boy washed ashore after trying to cross the Mediterranean Sea and another of a dust and blood-covered boy who had survived bombings in Aleppo, Syria.
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