This little four year-old was found by the UN workers in the photo, walking through the desert from Syria to Jordan. All he had was the shopping bag he carried, and all it contained was some clothes belonging to his dead mother and sister, killed in Syria.
(Seen here.)
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I keep thinking I saw this picture a few years ago.
Branjor on April 2nd, 2018 at 18:44
The sad thing is you could have seen one like it hundreds of times over. The statistics on unaccompanied children — little ones, as in six or even less — fleeing Syria is in the hundreds per year.
It’s utterly horrible what’s happening to the world.
quixote on April 5th, 2018 at 21:13