Friday, June 20 is World Refugee Day, and the head of a Santa Barbara-based global nonprofit humanitarian aid organization said the world is seeing the largest number of refugees on record.
“There are more displaced people in our world than in any time in our recorded history,” said ShelterBox USA President Kerri Murray. “The United Nations has announced that there are 132 million people forcibly displaced worldwide. That’s one in 67 people.”
ShelterBox provides tents, solar lights, water purification systems, and other essentials to people impacted by disasters, conflict, and the impacts of climate change…