It's been a while since I have posted updates on my activities. Bear with me. Life got the better of me and I got really, really busy. A few weeks ago my activist friend Hani Freedom (photo above) requested help for a few families that had crossed the border into Turkey, but had no food or safe shelter. They are literally making soup from leaves picked off the surrounding olive trees.
Hani is a 21 year old Turkish brother who grew up and became a man. He left his university studies because his heart was with the people of the Syrian revolution. I originally met Hani and his twin brother Shadi as they were requesting a bit help for the Syrian patients there were encountering who did not have any change to be able to call their families or buy some basic medication etc. He asked for money so people who had arrived in tattered, wounded clothes could retain some dignity and get some clothes on their bodies. Since then, Hani has become my trusted link to the need of several medical cases and families in need.
One of the families we are helping right now has three daughters. Their father broke down crying in the private footage I saw because he can't provide them with something as essential as water. The mother described how they got attacked in their home by missilies and had to pick up their family members all in pieces and that this family here of 5 people is what is left. I was thinking, who knows how many children she lost, aunts, uncles? Random and senseless.
This little girl here is the daughter of that couple. She is trying to keep smiling, but in the video you see her nervously move her hands and looks from her mother to her father, working on keeping her smile going. She looks to be 8-9 years old and probably used to be able to make her father and mother laugh form happiness when looking at her.
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