The Lost Children

The lost children of the caliphate - 5,000 locked up and abandoned in camps across Syria. Their only sin - their parents supported and died fighting for the Islamic state group. They came from across the globe leaving schools, homes and safety behind and are now stranded on Syrian soil. Countless childhoods violated and put on hold. This is no place for children, many are sick or injured - they need to be rescued. Their bodies bear the marks of an almost unimaginable horror, it’s too upsetting for them to describe. The mental scars run even deeper. They were too young to choose the Islamic state but in the West’s hasty rush from Syria these children are abandoned to more suffering when the pain they’ve already experienced is more than any child should bear. Victims of a war they did not ask for. Who will give them sanctuary