Forcibly uprooted from their homes, millions of Syrian children are growing up knowing nothing but war and terror. The IRC spoke with six refugee families on the Greek island of Lesbos about the difficult questions their children ask.
Stopping on Lesbos on the way to Germany, Yaza (right, with his younger siblings Aya and Yamen) says, “I just hope I’m treated like a human being.” Photo: Kulsoom Rizvi/IRC |
Yaza has been out of school for nearly four years. His family had fled their home in the countryside near Idlib to a makeshift camp in Lebanon.