David Miliband, President and CEO of the International Rescue Committee, thanks IRC volunteers with a special video message.

In Libya, young men’s lives are only as valuable as the payments they can supply to their smugglers and to militia. If they don’t have money, their lives are, essentially, worthless. Here are the stories of five young men who survived the horrors of Libya and chose to take a treacherous journey across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.