In Oslo, Norway, a small boy sat shivering without a coat on a bench.
See what happened, and what it has to do with the children of Syria.
An excellent piece in the UK’s Independent, chronicles British photojournalist Ed Thompson’s trips to refugee camps housing many of Syria’s children.
Read the story, and see his compelling photo gallery, at the Independent’s site.
Eight year old Farah says her favorite activity is helping her father, a rebel commander, build bombs. Farah was interviewed int heh PBS documentary, Children of Aleppo, and you can see her in this clip from the documentary, where she describes the day her father was nearly killed while making a bomb.
“The United Nations says [Syria] is fast becoming the worst and most expensive humanitarian catastrophe in modern history.”
Syria Policy Unraveling, from Politico.
Julia Mathis has founded the Palmyra Relief Club at Walter Johnson High School in Bethesda, MD, US. The purpose of the club is to raise funds and awareness to support children wounded by the war in Syria, who have lost limbs, and are in need of prosthetic limbs and rehabilitative care.
Palmyra Relief 