Tuesday 6 November
On Friday in Jarjanaz, a village about 25 kilomteres from Saraqeb, the Syrian army fired on the town using heavy artillery. Ten people were killed. In Saraqeb, people could feel the ground shake during the attack. Ahmed called, but he had something else he wanted to talk about.
“Hi, Ahmed, I see that you tried to call me. Is something going on?”
“Did you see my Whatsapp message? I saw a video on Facebook this morning of a boy, Omar, from Kaframbude, a village near Hama. I don’t know the village, and I don’t know the boy, but the video got to me. I thought, I have to share this.”
“The boy suffers from a rare chronic disease. It’s the kind of disease that only one person in a million gets. The family had just heard that doctors can’t help him here or in Turkey. They said his only chance to survive is to be treated by doctors in Europe.”
“As a father of two young children, I struggle to imagine what it would be like to be in Omar’s father’s shoes. I would be out of my mind and would do anything to save my child’s life. I can’t stop thinking about it. Maybe people who read this can do something, I don’t know. I feel like I have to do something, that’s why I called you.”
“We’ll talk again soon, right?”
