Sweet dreams
Fourteen-year-old Fadiya Abu Hadayid wants to be a teacher when she is older. Her favourite subjects are English and Maths and she loves school...
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Help for Hadeel
Fourteen-year-old Hadeel lives with her grandmother, one brother and three sisters. Her mother died recently from a heart-attack. Her father died several years ago...
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A creative child
Ahmed was diagnosed with Down ’s Syndrome at six months old. He did not walk until he was one and a half and did not talk until he was four...
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A better future
Mohanad Salim Al Hindi is eighteen and from Gaza in Palestine. Mohanad’s family have suffered both psychologically and financially...
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Abedullah’s story
Abedullah Abu Magseeb and his family live in the Wadi el Salqa village in Palestine’s Gaza Strip. Their home stands half-built and the family...
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A piece of paradise
When IR staff visited nine-year-old Shefa Ahmed Ghareeb she opened the door with a large grin on her face...
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A young carer
Nahla’s father died when the children were very small; leaving their mother to support the family. When she died Nahla took over from her...
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