Over 1 Million Children Just Wanna Go Home

I just read a report about the lives of Syrian refugee children, and it’s really bleak stuff. Here is one of the worst parts: Of the children interviewed, 29% of them say they leave their makeshift homes once a week or less. That means they are not getting schooling, not playing outside, not doing all…

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Alana Karsch

Mar 11, 2014

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