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SOLDIERS - WWW.IAVA.ORG It is estimated that 250,000 veterans are homeless on any given night. 25 percent are from the Iraqi Freedom and Desert Storm. Between 1/2 and 2/3 of Soldiers has at least one failed marriage/relationship strained by the weight of their problems. More than half of all Veternas suffer from PTSD and have drug or alcohol abuse problems that may have started or worsened during their service. REFUGEES - WWW.UNHCR.ORG There are over 20 million Refugees in the world to date. Half of all Refugees are under the age of 18. In Darfur it is estimated that 250,000 have died from genocide, 2 million have been displaced, and 200,000 thousand have fled to Chad. Palestinians are the world's oldest and largest refugee population, and make up more than one fourth of all refugees. There are over 1 million internally displaced Refugees in Afghanistan alone, 66,000 are pregnant women. |