The picture of the Syrian child Hussein ignites the communication sites.. What is her story?
A picture taken by a Lebanese engineer and university professor while he was walking on a street in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, sparked a storm of sympathy, and it topped social media over the past hours.
The photograph taken by the engineer Rodrigue Maghames, while passing through a street, documents the Syrian child, whose name is Hussein, sitting at the edge of the garbage container in which he was searching, scavenging for scrap and leftovers, but he found a book that sparked his curiosity, so he sat down to browse through it with curiosity and interest, forgetting his worries And his pain, as if it was a break cut from a hard life.
Al-Arabiya.net quoted Maghamis as saying, "He took the child's picture and he does not believe what he sees, because the child has been browsing the book for more than half an hour with passion and love, preoccupied with what surrounds him, as if searching for his place in one of its pages, knowing that the book is not for kids".
He added, "After that, I approached him and asked him to take a selfie with him, but he hesitated at first, but later agreed, after which I was able to approach him and ask him about his conditions."
He explained that "Hussain is a very smart child who loves to study. He goes to school (in the Bourj Hammoud area in the Matn) before noon and works in collecting scrap in the afternoon, in order to help his sick father and four sisters."
Maghames indicated that he works with an association to collect the necessary funds to help Hussein and his family, provided that he does not return to collecting scrap but devote himself to his studies.
He said, "The child's family lacks the most basic necessities of life, and we are working to secure it and pay the rent of the house so that it can live in appropriate living conditions."
The dura received thousands of comments from inside and outside Lebanon, and everyone asked for help and assistance for this child, whose condition epitomizes the suffering of thousands of Syrian children.
The displaced Syrians in Lebanon live in difficult living conditions, exacerbated by the economic crisis that the country is going through, and the collapse of the value of the financial aid that ensured their survival so far.
According to official estimates, there are about 1.5 million displaced Syrians living in Lebanon who left their country due to the war conditions, of whom about 855,000 are officially registered with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees.
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