“I love being there and being surrounded by my new friends from the centre,” he adds. “Even though I have to talk for over half an hour to my new school, I never skip a day, even when it’s raining,” explains Shaher with a smile. He also met new friends who encouraged him to continue his education and enroll in the same school they go to. At the center, Shaher started attending psychosocial support sessions that helped him regain his confidence and open-up.
Towards the end of last year, Shaher joined a UNICEF-supported centre in Hanano neighborhood near his house, where a case manager was assigned to work with him to help him cope with his situation. “I was being bullied daily, and I just couldn’t take it anymore, so I quit school,” he explains. Shaher’s mother heard the explosion and rushed him to the hospital where he required immediate surgery. “Someone was apparently burning trash in the abandoned building, unaware that a war remnant was in the pile, and caused it to explode,” explains Shaher.Īfter the explosion, Shaher tried to run but only managed to take a few steps before he collapsed on the ground shrapnel had punctured his kidney and lung and settled just next to his heart until this day. Like any curious child, they went in to explore, not knowing what was waiting for them. On the day of the incident, Shaher and his friends were playing in the street when they saw a small fire in one of the destroyed buildings. Throughout years of conflict, and after their house was destroyed, Shaher and his family were forced to flee violence several times, finally settling in the war-ravaged Hanano neighbourhood of Aleppo. Aleppo, Syria, 4 April 2021 – “I was playing with my friends in a destroyed house when something exploded,” says Shaher, 10, recalling the day a war remnant exploded back in 2018 and injured him and his friends.
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