The story of a Syrian child waking up at dawn to support 5 people
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The Syrian child Muhammad Abu Radan has known nothing but war and conflict throughout his short life, which reached only ten years, and now he supports his family of 5 other than him.
The child Muhammad Abu Radan was born in the countryside of Aleppo in 2011, when the protests began in Syria, and in his childhood there was nothing normal. The protests quickly turned into an armed conflict in which multiple parties participated and killed 388 thousand people, and caused the displacement of millions of others and turned the child's life with him Upside down.
Abu Radan now lives in a camp for internally displaced people in northern Aleppo and has become the main breadwinner for his family after a heart ailment left his father out of work.
Like many Syrian children, school has become a distant dream for him.
Muhammad, ten years old, says that his family used to have a home and he used to go to school every day, but the family sought refuge in the camp after the destruction of the house and school.
The child wakes up at dawn every day, braves the cold to stand on the side of the highway and signals for passing cars to ride one of them ten kilometers to a cleaning products factory where he works.
The long working day, which reaches ten hours in most cases, brings him about ($ 13) a month, which is all the income his family gets.
The child, Muhammad Abu Radan, works in packing large bags, some of which are twice larger than his size.
On his return to the camp, he feels so exhausted that he can do nothing but eat and sleep.
The child currently lives with his parents and three sisters in one tent, which does not protect them from the harsh winter of Syria, with its heavy rain and snow.
To keep his body warm, Abu Radan became an expert in making tea for himself and handles the gas cylinder with the confidence of an adult man.
And because circumstances have placed on his shoulders responsibilities far beyond his age, he undertakes much of the hard daily work with the skill of a man much older than his ten years.
But he was still a toddler laughing at him and playing with his three sisters in the tent.
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