Child-friendly spaces offer respite for Raqqa’s displaced children
RAQQA, Syrian Arab Republic, 23 August 2017 – When 12-year-old Rahaf and her family fled from violence in their hometown of Raqqa, they got caught in the crossfire. “We were terrified,” she says. “As we escaped Raqqa, my cousin was hit by a sniper, and we had to rush him to a nearby hospital.” Rahaf has seven sisters and two brothers, and although…