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03-20-2016, 04:42 PM
Seeing through new eyes: Refugee children paint the wars they've survived
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On one of her first visits to Jordan during the current refugee crisis, Carolyn Miles met a 15-year-old Syrian boy whose words still stick with her today.
Before his family fled Syria,*he was in high school, and doing well there. He'd started studying for university exams, mapping out his future, he told*Miles, president and CEO of children's rights organization Save the Children (http://www.savethechildren.org/).
"'Well, what do you think about your future **w?'" she asked him.*
"And he said to me, 'I really have ** future **w.'
"When a 15-year-old boy says that to you, it's worrying on many levels," Miles tells Mashable. "**t just for that child, but for the millions of other children like him — and for what they think their future will turn out to be." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/20/refugee-children-art/)
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On one of her first visits to Jordan during the current refugee crisis, Carolyn Miles met a 15-year-old Syrian boy whose words still stick with her today.
Before his family fled Syria,*he was in high school, and doing well there. He'd started studying for university exams, mapping out his future, he told*Miles, president and CEO of children's rights organization Save the Children (http://www.savethechildren.org/).
"'Well, what do you think about your future **w?'" she asked him.*
"And he said to me, 'I really have ** future **w.'
"When a 15-year-old boy says that to you, it's worrying on many levels," Miles tells Mashable. "**t just for that child, but for the millions of other children like him — and for what they think their future will turn out to be." Read more... (http://mashable.com/2016/03/20/refugee-children-art/)
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