Phil Moore Oxfam and Oxfam Canada Media

Lebanon Bekaa Valley: The United Nations High Commission for Refugees estimates there are now over 60 million forcibly displaced people around the world including 19.5 million refugees -- the highest number on record! Last year I travelled to Lebanon Bekaa Valley, where I saw firsthand how Syrian families living as refugees in cold and muddy tents were struggling to cope under difficult winter conditions, according to Huffington Post Canada. I remember one Syrian mom, Hanan, tell me "We can't sleep most nights because water leaks in and makes everything wet. Photo: Phil Moore/Oxfam By Melanie Gallant, Oxfam Canada Media Relations Officer Whether through civil war or other forms of conflict, natural disasters or climate related disasters such as drought, the global scale of displaced people is unprecedented. I am very worried for my children. Photo: Melanie Gallant/Oxfam Canada Millions of displaced people share that same dream -- they are living in makeshift dwellings, in urgent need of safe drinking water, sanitation services, food, shelter, medicine, education and security, wanting desperately to return home. I think of going back to Syria every day." Hanan sits in the makeshift tent she shares with her own children and other Syrian refugees in Saide refugee settlement, Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.