Paper Rockets
Adam faces the turmoil of war with support from the UNICEF
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Adam, a seven years old Syrian child. He was born alongside his twin brother in El-Za’tari camp in Jordan. His twin brother died only when he was four days old due to a congenital heart disease.
Adam's parents brought him to Egypt in fear of his health after he had started showing signs of his late twin's illness.
The second displacement to a new county was a very hard experience on Adam's family, especially with father's war injury that makes finding a stable job even harder.
Adam's family reached out to Caritas Egypt, one of UNICEF’s implementing partners to aid and support refugees in Egypt.
Caritas Egypt responded and transferred Adam to get the medical help he needed. However, Adam still needed further support.
UNICEF/Egypt 2024/Bassma Fathy
Despite his young age and few words, Adam's mother noticed that he is a shy emotional child and quite aware of what’s happening in the world around him, like what the children of Lebanon, Palestine and Syria are going through.
In the Specialized child protection services center run by Caritas Egypt, Adam received professional psychological support, one of the multiple services offered to aid migrant, refugee, and asylum-seeking children.
UNICEF/Egypt 2024/Bassma Fathy
These services include creating individual care and follow-up plans for each child that involves his/her care providers. This is to ensure the execution of necessary intervention to reduce risks he/she might face. This is not exclusively about physiological intervention, but also includes need-based interventions like referral to hospitals and other services that are offered by partner NGOs to ensure receiving health care, education, financial, and legal support.
UNICEF/Egypt 2024/Ahmed Mostafa
Adam's favorite sport is football, and because of his family's limited resources, he can only make a ball out of socks to play with his older brother. In his free time, Adam also makes Paper Rockets.
UNICEF/Egypt 2024/Bassma Fathy
Adam says: "Rockets are better made of paper so they wouldn't hurt anyone, not like the ones in Palestine and Lebanon. Those are not made of paper, those kill people."
The crisis in Syria led to the existence of more than 153,000 refugees around the world at the end of 2023, as per the UNHCR.
Children face challenges to fulfill their basic needs; like education, health care, and physiological support.
Since the start of the Syrian crisis, UNICEF was one of the first organizations to offer immediate aid to Syrian refugees all over the world. This humanitarian response has extended to Sudanese and Palestinian children following the wars in their countries, with generous support from the Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration, the European Union, Netherland’s PROSPECTS partnership and the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation.
UNICEF is calling for immediate interventions, cease-fire, and the restoration of security and safety of the children of the world.
