By ANAND JAUREGUILORDA, age 10
According to the United Nations Children’s Fund, 70 percent of child refugees from Syria in Lebanon alone
do not attend school. PHOTO: DFID – UK Department for International Development
Imagine waking up to the sound of an explosion outside. You look out the window and see your neighbor’s house smoldering from the impact of a bomb. Millions of children in Syria have experienced this since civil war broke out in the country in 2011. That year, teenagers were tortured for painting revolutionary slogans on a school wall. The protests that followed escalated into a civil war that continues today. In Syria, more than 10,000 children have lost their lives to the war.
Twelve-year-old Camiran al-Ali, who grew up in Syria, was forced to flee with his family to Lebanon in October 2013. He told The Guardian, “I was scared of the bombs in Syria. I could hear them from the house and they fell nearby.”
More than 3.9 million refugees from Syria have crossed the borders into countries including Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey and Egypt, looking for safety. More than half of these refugees are children.
Many child refugees from Syria are forced to work to help support their families. In Lebanon, 80 percent of working child refugees are laboring in the fields. The work is hard and is bad for children’s backs. Farmers know they can pay children less than they would pay adults. One Syrian refugee in Lebanon told Al Jazeera, “There are children who would work the whole day for $3.50 — just to buy bread.”
According to the United Nations Children’s Fund, 70 percent of child refugees from Syria in Lebanon alone do not attend school. Thirteen-year-old Hassan told The Guardian, “If we go to school, who would help our families?”
Refugees: people who have had to leave their homes because of war or other violence, environmental disasters or a bad economy that leaves them unable to get jobs or make enough money.
Todos devemos que ayudar a los refugiados con comida ropa o aciendo casa
I think its not fair paying the children $3.50 because they work hard.
I could not belive a world like knowing that i’m not safe i feel really mad at those terrorist right now #prayfortheworld hopefully you guys feel safer now
I feel bad for these kids because they don’t deserve this.I think we should help these kids in Syria because they have gone through stuff they don’t deserve bombs,gun shots,terrorist and etc.
me siento triste por lo que paso en paris pero no es justo
que no dejen entrar a los refugiados de siria. que sean de siria no simnifica
que sean terroristas.
lo siento ninos de siria por las injusticias.
It’s not fair that the children would work one whole day just for $3.50, for bread. Farmers should not take advantage of children only because they are kids. Children have rights too!
SPEAK UP FOR KIDS!!!!!!!! : ) : )
Its not fair that the children are being treated like this.and they have to pay a lot.
i think that the kids shouldn’t be involved in the war because some kids don’t even go to school and a lot of them even got killed because of that. Thats why i don’t think kids should be involved in the wars.
Farmers should pay those kids about $5.00 an HOUR! Obama/the new president should make shelters for these poor families!#helpsyria #help #syria #endwar #savethekids #donate #children’s rights #helptherefugees #indykids
If i was in syria i would help the childeren and because the kids have to see people brutaly die infront of their eyes and its really sad to see all these kids sufer the pain of their heart being broken by being slaves and plz help these kids !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!and the gravity falls is coming in three days,and plz help these kids! #prayforparis #prayforsiria #prayfortheworld #helpthekids
I thing is not fair to only pay the children $3.00 because they work hard.And i thing that is not fair for the children to wort and i thing that is not even fair for them to treat them bad because they are only children.
es injusto que le de poquito dinero a los ninos y mucho a los adultos y mesiento mal por los ninos quisiera ayudarlos
I think the people in Syria are ok in the war
How can they learn if they don’t go to school?!?
Why do they get $3.50 just to get bread?
Do they always eat bread?
Why would they hurt kids if there human also and they were also kids before?
-Ashley
I feel very bad for the kids because they are running from war#savethekids #stopthewar
i feel sad for them and why does the kids have to save and support their family .well actually why do they force the children to doit .and i now that they are tring to find a place to leave and if i was presadint that im never beacuse im to young well if i was i will let them leave in san fransisco ore another place only if their is no war .and that is not fair.and i wana help that their is no more war never again . before war comes again.and no more violence evryone does not like violence ore war.i dont want people to get hurt ore dies we can do it we can comon
san fransisco.
I think we should end the war of Syria because kids and adults can be in a coma after hearing all the loudness of the guns and bombs.