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Born into conflict, 10-year old Syrian child is family’s breadwinner

Born into conflict, 10-year old Syrian child is family’s breadwinner

MAHMOUD and HASSANO MOHAMMED Abu Rdan has known nothing but conflict throughout his short life. Born in rural Aleppo in 2011 when peaceful protests against President Bashar al-Assad's government began, his childhood is anything but typical. The protests quickly turned into a multi-sided conflict that has sucked in world powers, killed hundreds of thousands of people and displaced millions more and with it upended Abu Rdan's life. Now living in a displaced peoples' camp in northern Aleppo, Abu Rdan has become his family's main breadwinner after heart disease rendered his father unfit to work. Like for many other Syrian children,…
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