The smallest victims
Without a home, Syrian children talk of hope and survival
Cengiz Yar Jr.
Five-year-old Qamar likes jumping rope and watching Tom and Jerry cartoons. Her favorite color is red, and she loves horses. When it comes dinnertime, she will never turn down roasted chicken. And even though she isn't even old enough to attend school, Qamar knows she wants to be a doctor when she grows up.Today, Qamar and her family live in a tent in a makeshift refugee camp in Bekaa Valley, Lebanon. She is just one of the estimated 1.2 million child refugees that have fled Syria due to the ongoing civil war and conflict spurred on by Islamic State militants.The Syria’s Children project documents Qamar's story and others like it. Below are personal accounts of kids ranging from five to 16 years old, living as refugees in Turkey, Jordan, Lebanon and Iraq.Each child involved in the project was interviewed in a safe environment with parental or guardian consent, and at the end of the interview their portraits were taken.
