The United Nations announced the number of Syrians refugees who’ve fled their country officially hit one million. Antonio Guterres, head of UNHCR, says that could triple by the end of this year. http://ow.ly/iNL1g
A Ballet School Still Open Despite Violence in Syria
Emma LeBlanc, a 25-year-old Rhodes Scholar from New Hampshire, has spent much of the past five years in Syria, documenting life there with a camera. Now, LeBlanc has assembled an exhibit of photographs taken at a ballet school in a suburb of Damascus, as a way to show daily life routines during times of conflict.
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A Ballet School Still Open Despite Violence in Syria
25-year-old Emma LeBlanc uses photographs of young ballerinas at a dance school in a suburb of Damascus to show daily life routines during times of conflict. http://ow.ly/gIaPg
War has sent more than a half a million refugees fleeing Syria into Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Turkey and North Africa in recent months.
Melissa Fleming, the chief spokesperson for the UNHCR says thousands of refugees are arriving each day, often including children traveling on their own, arriving in a freezing rain.
“People are arriving frozen. They just have the clothes on their back. They’re arriving with babies. Kids are coming without their parents,” Fleming says. “Children who have seen their friends die in front of them. Children who say they don’t have any friends anymore because they all died… It’s really hard to fathom how a child can go through that, and go on.”
"People are arriving frozen. They just have the clothes on their back. They’re arriving with babies. Kids are coming without their parents. Children who have seen their friends die in front of them. Children who say they don’t have any friends anymore because they all died… It’s really hard to fathom how a child can go through that, and go on."
— Melissa Fleming, the chief spokesperson for the UNHCR, on the refugees fleeing Syria
Photo of the Day: Moayed, a 9-year old Syrian refugee boy, lies over cotton clumps as the other Syrians work in a cotton field in the village of Bukulmez on the Turkish-Syrian border, in Hatay province.
Despite the conflict on the Syrian side of the border, cotton harvest is still underway in Turkey’s southern border province of Hatay. During early October, the Turkish military launched a retaliatory strike in Syria after a mortar bomb fired from Syrian soil landed in the countryside in Hatay.
Some Syrian refugees work at cotton fields together with Turkish villagers in the border region as cotton pickers. (Photo: REUTERS/Murad Sezer)
