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To provide them with a suitable intervention, we create the four-step approach, a psychosocial work plan that follows the refugees on each step of their journey.

We have provided 26,000 hours of mental health support to over 10,000 refugees.

But I landed in a refugee situation that had a million refugees in 40 camps, and there were six of us doctors.

And in order to do this work, we, of course, because of the limitation in health workers, had to recruit refugees to be a specialized new category of health worker.

And this applies not just to people who have been living in the USA for many generations, but also to immigrants and refugees, who, for most immigrant and refugee groups, arrive in the USA metabolically healthy, and then within a few years, they become just as high-risk for obesity and diabetes as other Americans.

And we discussed this issue with two groups that have been coming to the USA from Southeast Asia: the Hmong, who started coming in the mid-1970s as refugees from the Vietnam War and the US secret war in Laos; and the Karen, who have been coming more recently as refugees from Myanmar.

The year is 1998, the place is a prison camp for Tutsi refugees in Congo.

By the way, 80 percent of all refugees and displaced people in the world are women and girls.

Or helping to find the refugees fleeing Myanmar.

My story is like that of so many other refugees.

And educated refugees will be the hope of rebuilding their countries someday.

So I want to ask you all to invest in young refugees.

And I want you to remember that although the children here may be refugees, they are children.

So I started working with refugees because I wanted to make a difference, and making a difference starts with telling their stories.

So when I meet refugees, I always ask them questions.

And that day, they joined the biggest population of refugees in the world, in a country, Lebanon, that is tiny.

It only has four million citizens, and there are one million Syrian refugees living there.

There's not a town, a city or a village that is not host to Syrian refugees.

What I find most worrying is that half of all Syrian refugees are children.

Shouldn't this be rebuilt by the people with the largest stake, the societies in exile, the refugees?

Refugees have a lot of time to prepare for their return.

Americans and Europeans have the impression that proportionally huge numbers of refugees are coming to their country, but the reality is that 86 percent, the vast majority of refugees, are living in the developing world, in countries struggling with their own insecurity, with their own issues of helping their own populations and poverty.

So wealthy countries in the world should recognize the humanity and the generosity of the countries that are hosting so many refugees.

But there is something more that we can do than just simply helping refugees survive.

Rather, as centers of excellence, where refugees can triumph over their trauma and train for the day that they can go home as agents of positive change and social transformation.

So here is my point: Not investing in refugees is a huge missed opportunity.

The victims of war can hold the keys to lasting peace, and it's the refugees who can stop the cycle of violence.

We called it "30 Mosques in 30 Days," and we drove to all the 50 states and shared stories from over 100 vastly different Muslim communities, ranging from the Cambodian refugees in the L.A. projects to the black Sufis living in the woods of South Carolina.

All of us are refugees.

While we were there as refugees, we didn't know what was going to become of us.

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