Fleeing conflict in Iraq: “I wonder what I’m doing here“

Subscribe to UNICEF here: Noor, a third-grader, fled her hometown of Qaraqosh when fighting broke out. Her father then drove her family to Beharka refugee camp, where she and her sister are attending a UNICEF-run school. The girls’ father has gone missing, and their mother is temporarily in Mosul. “Sometimes I feel really down. I wonder what I’m doing here,“ she says. “Every night I dream of being back at my school, with my teacher teaching me, my parents returned to me. We’d live in
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