Photo: Peter Biro/IRC
DOMIZ CAMP, Iraq
“Children are our future but they the ones those who suffer the most in refugee camps,” says the IRC's Salih Salahaddin Musa, who specializes in helping unaccompanied and separated Syrian refugee children.
When Dila*, 14, crossed the border from war-torn Syria into neighboring Iraq in January, she had no one to look after her. No family member accompanied her on the steel barge that crossed the brown waters of the Khabour River that marks the border and no relative greeted her on the Iraqi side of the river.