Saving Syria 300 words
Saving Syria’s Children
(Show images of Syrian people and the bad states they are living in.)
What sort of world are we living in? The children of Syria are suffering, in distress, agony and are helpless. Syria is crying, no; screaming, to the whole world for help and, in the words of Dr Rola Hallam, “the entire world has failed them and it is innocent civilians that are paying the price.”
Children have been forced to flee the country in the darkness of the night, with nothing but the clothes on their backs to avoid the heartless government forces. Children have been ruthlessly ripped from their everyday lives of education and playtime, to a world we only see in movies. They are constantly hungry, exhausted and have harrowing stories to tell. These children have been forced to witness scenes that no person should ever have to see.
(show the little girl, and the boy, mentioned in the following paragraph, along with other war stricken orphans).
A little girl describes the day she saw her mother die. Her own mother was shot and raped in front of her, whilst she and her brothers could do nothing but weep. Another boy was detained in a police cell for over a month. He was taken out every day, to be whipped and burnt with cigarettes. Many children have seen so much more than we can ever imagine in our worst nightmares. They have been left with nothing, their homes?* Are gone. Their families? Dispersed. And their health? Deteriorating. Some have been left so traumatised that they wet their beds, and some cannot even speak. Many self harm in an attempt to escape the nightmare they are living.
(*at this point show homes which have been destroyed, families which have been killed and images of sick children in the makeshift hospitals).
Makeshift camps have been set up by the people of Syria, and they are over flowing with disease, dirt and horrible memories. One man describes how there is a child with diseases like typhoid in every tent. They do not have the
(Show images of Syrian people and the bad states they are living in.)
What sort of world are we living in? The children of Syria are suffering, in distress, agony and are helpless. Syria is crying, no; screaming, to the whole world for help and, in the words of Dr Rola Hallam, “the entire world has failed them and it is innocent civilians that are paying the price.”
Children have been forced to flee the country in the darkness of the night, with nothing but the clothes on their backs to avoid the heartless government forces. Children have been ruthlessly ripped from their everyday lives of education and playtime, to a world we only see in movies. They are constantly hungry, exhausted and have harrowing stories to tell. These children have been forced to witness scenes that no person should ever have to see.
(show the little girl, and the boy, mentioned in the following paragraph, along with other war stricken orphans).
A little girl describes the day she saw her mother die. Her own mother was shot and raped in front of her, whilst she and her brothers could do nothing but weep. Another boy was detained in a police cell for over a month. He was taken out every day, to be whipped and burnt with cigarettes. Many children have seen so much more than we can ever imagine in our worst nightmares. They have been left with nothing, their homes?* Are gone. Their families? Dispersed. And their health? Deteriorating. Some have been left so traumatised that they wet their beds, and some cannot even speak. Many self harm in an attempt to escape the nightmare they are living.
(*at this point show homes which have been destroyed, families which have been killed and images of sick children in the makeshift hospitals).
Makeshift camps have been set up by the people of Syria, and they are over flowing with disease, dirt and horrible memories. One man describes how there is a child with diseases like typhoid in every tent. They do not have the