Why I do this

Photo by Osman Sagirli

According to this article, this little girl is a 4 year old Syrian refugee child. Upon seeing a photojournalist with a telephoto lens on her camera, she tightened her lips into a frown and raised both hands over her head in surrender-- at four years old, well versed in what to do when a weapon is being pointed at you.

Nobody can fix everything, and I certainly can't make things better for this kiddo, but the world has the capacity for incredible pain and depth of despair, and equal capacity for hope and peace. And kids like this, who have experienced nothing but war in their lifetimes, like the displaced I saw earlier this week participating in soccer and tug of war with their Kurdish neighbors for World Day of Sport for Peace and Development activities, who have been forced from their homes and have experienced more dark than anyone could even hope to imagine, deserve a shot at some hope for a better future. So I'll do what I can, whatever small part that might be.

A class of Arab students from the local IDP (internally displaced people) school came to
participate in World Day of Sport for Peace and Development.