TUESDAY February 16, 2021: SYRIA'S FUTURE' from ZUMA Press award winning photographer Anas Alkharboutli of DPA who won the 27th Prix Bayeux Calvados Normandy War Correspondents Award 2020: Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the children of Syria have been living under the constant threat of violence, deprivation and extreme emotional duress. More than half the population, over 11 million people, including 4.8 million children, require humanitarian assistance. In the last 12 months, the socio economic impacts of COVID-19 created a crisis on top of a crisis, further eroding access to essential services and hitting children and families extremely hard. Schools and hospitals remain under attack. Millions of children and families have been uprooted by violence. Millions of children have been living as refugees in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey for years. For those who remain inside the country, displacement has become a way of life. Welcome to SYRIA'S FUTURE'
© zReportage.com Story of the Week #774: TUESDAY February 16, 2021: SYRIA'S FUTURE' from ZUMA Press award winning photographer Anas Alkharboutli of DPA who won the 27th Prix Bayeux Calvados Normandy War Correspondents Award 2020: Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, the children of Syria have been living under the constant threat of violence, deprivation and extreme emotional duress. More than half the population, over 11 million people, including 4.8 million children, require humanitarian assistance. In the last 12 months, the socio economic impacts of COVID-19 created a crisis on top of a crisis, further eroding access to essential services and hitting children and families extremely hard. Schools and hospitals remain under attack. Millions of children and families have been uprooted by violence. Millions of children have been living as refugees in Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon and Turkey for years. For those who remain inside the country, displacement has become a way of life. Welcome to SYRIA'S FUTURE'
Members of a team comprising Syrian athletes perform parkour stunts amongst the rubble of destroyed buildings in the town of Kafr Nouran. Parkour is a sport in which young athletes run, jump and hurl themselves over obstacles to get from one point to another as quickly as possible.
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A Syrian boy covered in mud smiles during a sports competition organized by volunteers at the Baraem camp for internally displaced people.
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Children work on an artwork made by mud with a light table, during an exhibition held by the Violet volunteer team in a camp at the Village of Killi. The portraits are painted with mud to draw the world's attention to the conditions of the displaced throughout the winter season.
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Children attend a class at a school in the town of Batenta camp in Idlib governorate on the first day of the school year, amid the spread of the coronavirus.
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Members of a team comprising Syrian athletes perform parkour stunts amongst the rubble of destroyed buildings in the town of Kafr Nouran.
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Children in wheelchairs arrive to attend a Karate training class lead by Wasim Satot, in Aljiina village in the Aleppo countryside.
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WASIM SATOT, 38 years-old, a karate coach holding a black belt, trains a child during his Karate training class inside a school owned by his mother for special needs children. Wasim is a physical education teacher began his own karate project year ago, in which he was keen to merge special needs children together with healthy children in ages between 6 and 15 into a karate training class to help integrate society through sport.
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Syrian children peep out from a tent at the flooded Tal Amin camp for internally displaced people, near the village of Kafr Aruq.
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Syrian children peep out from a tent at the flooded Tal Amin camp for internally displaced people, near the village of Kafr Aruq. The refugee camps in the north of Idlib governorate have are under threat of extreme winter weather as they have been flooded following heavy rain in the previous days.
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Syrian children warm up their hands during cold weather conditions at a camp for internally displaced people, near the village of Barisha. The refugee camps in the north of Idlib governorate are under threat of extreme winter weather with heavy rain and snowfall.
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A Syrian boy standing at the doorstep of a workshop while a man welds a wood stove which they will sell, as Syrians prepare for the upcoming harsh winter season.
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Volunteer hairdresser's wearing face masks give internally displaced children a hair cut before Eid Al-Fitr, at a refugee camp in Kah village, in the northern Idlib province near the border with Turkey. A group of 10 hairdressers of a volunteer team dubbed 'Al Helm,' or 'The Dream,' are touring the refugee camps to give children a hair cut, targeting at least 1000 child in their latest campaign before Eid celebrations.
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Syrian children play table foosball amongst damaged buildings at the village of Afes. Residents of Afes started returning back to their homes after they were forced into internal displacement due to the intense bombing amid the Syrian Government's military campaign in North-western Syria.
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A boy feeds a dog at the remains of an ancient church in the village of Babisqa. About 6 internally displaced Syrian families, whose homes in the village of Ain La Rose were destroyed by the Syrian government shelling, are taking shelter in Babisqa ancient churches.
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Syrian children wade through a street at the village of Afes. Residents of Afes started returning back to their homes after they were forced into internal displacement due to the intense bombing amid the Syrian Government's military campaign in North-western Syria.
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A Syrian child mourns during a burial service for some of the fighters of the Turkish-backed Faylaq al-Sham rebels group, who were killed in a Russian air strike targeting their military training camp in north-western Syria.
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An aerial view taken with a drone shows tents of internally displaced Syrians at the Atma refugee camp on the Turkish-Syrian border. The camp emerged at the start of the Syrian Civil War in 2011 and is now home to tens of thousands who failed to cross over to Turkey and had to settle in the camp instead.
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ABDEL AZIZ HASSAN, an internally displaced Syrian man, stands with his children at the remains of an ancient church in the village of Babisqa. About 6 internally displaced Syrian families, whose homes in the village of Ain La Rose were destroyed by the Syrian government shelling, are taking shelter in Babisqa ancient churches. The area is part of the UNESCO World Heritage Site of the Dead Cities that date back to the Roman and Byzantine eras.
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Three Syrian girls use an umbrella to shelter themselves from the rain as they walk down an alley near a local market amid chilly weather conditions.
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Syrian children wrestle in the mud during a sports competition day organized by volunteers at the Baraem camp for internally displaced people.
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Syrian children take part in a mud sled race during a sports competition day organized by volunteers at the Baraem camp for internally displaced people.
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Syrian children with balloons cheer for competitors taking part in a sports competition day organized by volunteers at the Baraem camp for internally displaced people.
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Syrian children play on the street amongst damaged buildings at the village of Afes. Residents of Afes started returning back to their homes after they were forced into internal displacement due to the intense bombing amid the Syrian Government's military campaign in North-western Syria.
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Two Syrian boys sit by the fire to stay warm amid chilly weather conditions at a local market, the wall behind riddles with bullet holes. War-torn Syria experiences very hot summers and equally cold winters, which causes major problems for those who were forced into internal displacement.
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Two Syrian boys sell vegetables under a tarp and in front of a destroyed building at a local market amid chilly weather conditions.
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Children stand in front of a tent which is prepared to be a classroom at a school in the town of Batenta camp in Idlib governorate on the first day of the school year, amid the spread of the coronavirus.
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Children wear face masks as they attend a class at a school in the Batenta camp in Idlib governorate on the first day of the school year.
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