Reference :
V-P-SY-E-00492
Date :
11/2015
Caption :
Rural Damascus, Kessweh, collective shelter. Portrait of a nine-year-old displaced girl who received new winter clothes from the ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
When this nine-year-old girl and her friends come back from school to the collective shelter where they live, the place comes alive. They start running and playing in the corridors of the old school, now used to host displaced people who fled the Syrian conflict for safer heaven in Kessweh, Rural Damascus.
She fled her home in Daraya four years ago, “I don’t remember my friends there, but I love it here. I have great friends who play with me and help me to do the homework”, she says. Her friend adds, “I miss the bag behind the door in my classroom in Daraya, it used to be full of new spiral notebooks for the school. Now, they are expensive and Mama cannot not afford them”.
This girl dreams to become an ophthalmologist. She does not know why she wants that, but she says, “I like to look into people’s eyes”. She is eager to grow up quickly to start working and bringing money to her family. “Mama says that I am growing so quickly, she has to bring me new clothes every winter”. She explains.
When she received her new clothes for winter brought by the ICRC and the Syrian Arab Red Crescent, she ran quickly to put on her new tracksuit. “It feels warm inside”, she smiled and went to join her friends to play again.
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
5616x3744
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
