Hope for Refugees: Saved but not Safe

Categories: Global CitizenshipSocial and Political Action

Here is a story about a 15-year-old boy called Rifat living in the city of Aleppo in Syria in 2016. Since 2011, Syria has been in a civil war, and the residents of Aleppo, like all Syrians, were living with the effects of the war. Rifat’s parents tried their very best to protect Rifat, his three sisters (aged 9, 15, and 16), and a brother, aged 13, from feeling the effects of the violence surrounding them. 

They were determined to keep the...