THE FORGOTTEN PEOPLE: 5 QUESTIONS FOR SARAH COSTA ON HELPING THE WORLD’S GROWING REFUGEE POPULATION

“There are more refugees now than at any other time in recent history,” laments Sarah Costa, executive director of the Women’s Refugee Commission, one of the few organizations that focuses specifically on the world's displaced people, most of whom are women and children. With refugees spawned by catastrophes in Syria (“the biggest humanitarian crisis since Rwanda 20 years ago,” says Costa), Somalia, Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo and even, still, Colombia the WRC has no shortage of projects to tackle. Here, Costa tells why WRC is making a difference, and how she keeps going.

Read the interview on the Women in the World Foundation website.