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Six years of conflict. 4.9 million Syrian refugees.

They are some of the most vulnerable people on earth.

They need our help, now, more than ever.

I recently read Zeinab Al Farhaan and it broke my my heart. Below is an extract from her story, and in the UK we are stoic, kind and can help the terrible situation we are in by killing conflict with kindness.

Zeinab Al Farhaan is a bright, wide-eyed girl I met for the first time a month ago at Dream Land, a Mercy Corps playground inside Jordan’s Zaatari refugee camp. The 13-year-old arrived two months ago with her mother, six siblings, aunt and five cousins. They finally decided to leave Syria after bombings in their home city of Dara’a hit as close as their neighbor’s house.

As I was talking with Zeinab, tears instantly welled-up in her eyes when she thought about what she misses most in Syria, “I miss my dad. He stayed to work and protect our home.” Zeinab aspires to become an agricultural engineer like her father — a goal I have no doubt this able, studious child has the ability to reach.

Playgrounds brighten bleak surroundings...Zeinab likes her new school in the camp and she loves the playgrounds, with particular fervor. Nizar Shudayfat, the Zaatari playground and activities manager, sees the play areas as “…safe places for the children to forget the conflict and war they lived through and the homes they have lost.” The playgrounds are no doubt a positive place for the children to let their fears and worries fall away.

Still, the realities of the inconveniences of camp life have set in. “The bathrooms are far away [a ¼ mile walk] and dirty,” she continued. “We also have to carry water from the bathrooms. And it’s getting too hot and dusty.”

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