Thursday, October 29, 2015 10:27:15 PM
Migrant Children, Arriving Alone and Frightened
By KATRIN BENNHOLDOCT. 28, 2015
Hashmat Delawari, 15, top; Mohammad Safar Delawari, 14; and Mujtaba Habibi, 14, right,
at a youth home in Passau, Germany. Credit Mauricio Lima for The New York Times
PASSAU, Germany — Reza Mohammadi lost his parents in a forest in Macedonia. Or Serbia. He does not remember.
What he does remember is that it was raining: Thick mud clung to his shoes and weighed down his 7-year-old legs.
[...]
Reza Mohammadi, 8, in a children's home in Büchlberg, Germany. Credit Mauricio
Lima for The New York Times
A small child with large hazel eyes and an earnest face, Reza arrived in Passau on Dec. 29. City
officials believe he is the youngest refugee to make it to this Bavarian border town on his own.
“Is this Germany?” he reportedly asked a translator in the first of many interviews
that helped piece together his story. Then: “Please, I want to call my mom.”
[...]
Boys from Afghanistan and Syria during an art class at a youth center in Passau.
Credit Mauricio Lima for The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/world/europe/in-waves-of-migrants-children-arrive-alone-and-settle-in-uneasily.html
By KATRIN BENNHOLDOCT. 28, 2015
Hashmat Delawari, 15, top; Mohammad Safar Delawari, 14; and Mujtaba Habibi, 14, right,
at a youth home in Passau, Germany. Credit Mauricio Lima for The New York Times
PASSAU, Germany — Reza Mohammadi lost his parents in a forest in Macedonia. Or Serbia. He does not remember.
What he does remember is that it was raining: Thick mud clung to his shoes and weighed down his 7-year-old legs.
[...]
Reza Mohammadi, 8, in a children's home in Büchlberg, Germany. Credit Mauricio
Lima for The New York Times
A small child with large hazel eyes and an earnest face, Reza arrived in Passau on Dec. 29. City
officials believe he is the youngest refugee to make it to this Bavarian border town on his own.
“Is this Germany?” he reportedly asked a translator in the first of many interviews
that helped piece together his story. Then: “Please, I want to call my mom.”
[...]
Boys from Afghanistan and Syria during an art class at a youth center in Passau.
Credit Mauricio Lima for The New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/29/world/europe/in-waves-of-migrants-children-arrive-alone-and-settle-in-uneasily.html
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