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Syrians living in tents at the Turkish border have to fight against poverty in addition to epidemics.
Syrian children who can not sleep in tents at night due to the cold weather and who gather around fire that they make during day time could be seen with their thin clothes and with no shoes or socks.
Children rush to the fire that they find in front of any tent when they wake up after having left their schools, friends and toys due to the war in Syria.
Syrian children begin the day with bread and breakfast items distributed by philanthropists as they warm up with their hands and face sooted and without knowing what they will eat in the rest of the day.
Some of the Syrian children receive the assistance of their mother at the table despite the poverty and some others collect wood to help their mothers make a fire while others take care of brothers or sisters.
The common dream of all Syrians living in tents is returning to warm homes by fighting against the cold and poverty and by counting the days.
-A shy child wants knitted cap from AA correspondent-
Children do not leave alone the representatives of various civil society organizations or journalists visiting the region with tents and want jackets, shoes or skullcaps instead of chips, toys or chocolate so they do not feel the cold.
A Syrian child who approached the AA team, present at the region to carry the humanitarian tragedy to the whole world, is only one of them...
The child was trying to explain that he felt cold by pointing out to his feet and head. When he spoke in Arabic trying to convey that he wanted a knitted cap, everyone felt emotional.
Wearing a slipper on one foot and an old shoe on the other foot, the child looks forward to the day when aid organizations will provide cap, socks or shoes whose pair is the same.
-Mother's teardrops for her children-
Hatice Ferhat, a mother of four and staying in the tent for the past two months, is crying to the cameras that they were waiting for children's clothes and material that they could use in heating themselves.
Showing two of her children to the camera, Ferhat said that they came to the region without anything and that they were in a very difficult position.
Ferhat was in tears as she could not feed her children and could not dress them up with appropriate clothes for winter.
Ferhat waits so her children get cared.
"Do these children deserve to live the conditions they are in? Epidemics are wide in the region. We wait for our destiny. Arabic countries should take care of us. They should help us in God's name. We are in a very difficult situation. We have no energy left to deal with the difficulties. I can not even provide a single sock to my children as there are no socks," Ferhat also said.
Reporting by Ismihan Ozguven/Salim Tas
