Nothing is everything

My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

IRAQ | Tuesday, 2 July 2013 | Views [288] | View Larger Image

There always seems to be some solidarity among children: in sharing toys, in playing together. In a playground that is more likely to be hell, walking together hand in hand is a safe way to discover this new world.

People try to go on with their lives and do what they did before escaping from their villages. This man is 72 years old and left Syria at a sudden with his son. They had a bakery that has been destroyed and they have now arranged their new shop in an emergency building, decorated with a painting of the Kurdish flag and the picture of Masoud Barzani, the founder of the democratic Party of Kurdistan and President of the Kurdish Autonomous Region of Iraq. He gives pitas, the local bread, for free to all refugees who cannot afford to pay for it.

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Everything is needed here: the T-shirt of this boy screams out loud the message you can read on each single yard of the camp, a place where nothing is really everything.

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My Scholarship entry - A 'place' I have visited

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