The 50 or so laughing children playing in the mud on a hot, rainy day deep in Guinea’s remote Forest Region are mostly younger than 12 years old, and, although small for their age, seem reasonably healthy. The mud, their youth, and giggles are not the only things they share in common, however. Each are abandoned children that were forced to flee the orphanage they called home when the northeastern Liberian border town of Ganta turned into a war zone earlier this year. They also have another commonality that bonds them; each child is now a refugee in a foreign land, attempting to again restart their already broken lives.