Globally this year, according to the United Nations Refugee Agency, over 1,150,000 refugees are hoping to be resettled.
This is the first time in the 30 years for which the U.N. has kept records that the number of refugees hoping for resettlement is more than one million people—many of them women and children.
According to a U.N. report published last year, the total number of refugees in the world in 2015 was over 14 million. This year 70,000 will be resettled in the U.S. Some of them will be sent to Chattanooga where Marina Pesterianu and her staff at Bridge Refugee Services will help them find a home, clothing, food and for almost all of them—within six months—a job.
Richard Winham talked to Ms. Peshterianu who told him she’s an eternal optimist.