When looking at the sheer number of refugees around the world, it’s easy to become disillusioned.

According to a June report, nearly 60 million people were forcibly displaced from their homes at the end of 2014, 19.5 million of whom were refugees (up from 16.7 million in the previous year). Half of those refugees were children.

And there isn’t an end to the crisis in sight, due in large part to conflicts in the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa. There are currently more than 4 million Syrian refugees displaced throughout various countries, not including more than 7.6 million people internally displaced within the country. In July, U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres called them “the biggest refugee population from a single conflict in a generation,” while the number of global refugees and internally displaced people is at its highest point since World War II.

When those hard facts and figures fail to garner the general public’s attention, human stories and striking images — like the tragic photo of a Syrian refugee boy’s lifeless body that washed ashore in a Turkey resort town Wednesday morning — tend to build empathy and anger across the globe, shedding light on a terribly common occurrence.

But as the refugee crisis worsens — and the media coverage surrounding it increases — many are left wondering: What can I do?