People around the world can now take a virtual field trip to Kosovo to witness how refugees from war-torn villages are putting their lives back together, thanks to efforts by CARE.

The New York-based charity has set up a Web site called "Kosovo One Year Later" that documents a seven-day trip CARE's Balkans coordinator Mike Godfrey took to asses the war's impact on the lives of Kosovars.

More than 800,000 refugees are returning from such places as Albania, Macedonia, Montenegro and Bosnia-Herzegovina to find their homeland littered with ammunition shells and their homes gutted and burned. The Web site shows pictures and journal entries from Godfrey's journey to Pristina, Chabra and Mitrovica.

This relief effort is important because CARE describes it as the "worst humanitarian disaster in Europe since World War II."

The relief agency is helping deactivate land mines, rehabilitate farmland, repair and build homes, and provide medical care.

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