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    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.

    Jason Cone, executive director of the U.S. branch of Doctors Without Borders, said the refugee crisis is made worse by two phenomena: the impossibility of providing humanitarian care when previously protected places like hospitals are being attacked; and the closed borders of places like Europe and the United States, which are hesitant to take refugees due to security concerns.

    Allowing refugees from the Middle East into the U.S. has become a key issue of the 2016 presidential campaign. Donald Trump's son tweeted last week that no one would eat from a bowl of Skittles if three were poisoned, drawing a comparison to barring Syrian refugees from coming to America since some may pose a threat.

    Trump has also said that he would ban all Muslims who aren't U.S. citizens from entering the country.

    The Doctors Without Borders exhibit is meant to challenge mindsets like this and "close the distance in the public's general understanding of the refugee crisis, to explain a major global crisis through individual stories as opposed to headlines and statistics," a spokeswoman said.

    "We want visitors to understand why so many risk it all, and decide that the open sea is safer than the land. We want visitors to have a glimpse of the impossible choices millions of people face every day as they run from horrific war, persecution, and economic deprivation," Cone said at the exhibit's opening in New York last month.

    The Obama administration hit its goal of admitting 10,000 Syrian refugees a month ahead of schedule in late August.

    Many Republicans fear that Islamic State fighters will be able to enter the U.S. posing as refugees, allowing for more attacks on the homeland. But Democrats have defended the vetting system put in place by President Obama.

    The Doctors Without Borders interactive exhibit will begin with an immersive film that transports visits to Tanzania, Mexico, South Sudan, Iraq and Lebanon, according to a press release. Visitors then move through six scenarios faced by refugees: causes of displacement, journey to safety, questions of legal status, basic needs and medical requirements of refugees, and the challenge of finding shelter.

    Visitors will be guided through the scenarios by Doctors Without Borders aid workers who can provide first-hand stories from the field.

    "People fleeing for their lives are too often reduced to numbers and statistics," Cone said. "They are far from passive victims. They are some of the bravest and most resilient individuals on Earth that I have ever met. Through this exhibit, we put a human face on those staggering numbers to give the public a real sense of what it looks like, feels like, and what it means, to be forced from home."

    The exhibit will be in D.C. from Oct. 1 to Oct. 9. You can reserve a time for an hour-long tour for free here.

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