It
is estimated that two million children have fled from the war in Syria
and surrounding countries with or without their families over the past
five years. Award-winning photographer Magnus Wennman traveled to
various refugee camps and gatherings of refugee groups in many countries
to document their plight. A series of his pictures showing where the
children sleep is accompanied by their stories at the Swedish site
Aftonbladet. Shown above is 5-year-old Lamar, and here’s her story.
Back
home in Baghdad, the dolls, the toy train, and the ball are left; Lamar
often talks about these items when home is mentioned. The bomb changed
everything. The family was on its way to buy food when it was dropped
close to their house. It was not possible to live there anymore, says
Lamar’s grandmother, Sara. After two attempts to cross the sea from
Turkey in a small, rubber boat, they succeeded in coming here to
Hungary’s closed border. Now Lamar sleeps on a blanket in the forest,
scared, frozen, and sad.
That is only one of
22 such stories in the post. See more of Wennman’s photography
at Instagram. Some of it may be disturbing.
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