The Heartbreaking Surrender of a 4 Year Old Syrian Girl
by Sami Cone
Feb 24, 2017
The internet cried a little last week over this tweet:
photojournalist took this photo 4 Syrian child, thought he has a weapon not a camera so she Gave up ! #Surrended pic.twitter.com/bm1hOWQWJY
— Nadia AbuShaban®🇵🇸 (@NadiaAbuShaban) March 24, 2015
The 4 year old Syrian girl saw the photographer raise his camera and instinctively raised her hands, thinking it was a weapon.
BBC Trending spoke to the photographer - now working in Tanzania - to confirm the origins of the picture. The child is in fact not a boy, but a four-year-old girl, Hudea. The image was taken at the Atmeh refugee camp in Syria, in December last year. She travelled to the camp - near the Turkish border - with her mother and two siblings. It is some 150 km from their home in Hama.
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While the war can seem impossibly far away from our homes here in the USA, a photo like this makes it ever more real, especially for those of us who are parents.
Sami Cone
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Sami Cone is the best-selling author of "Raising Uncommon Kids", is known as the "Frugal Mom" on Nashville's top-rated talk show "Talk of the Town" and educates over a million listeners every day on her nationally syndicated "Family Money Minute". She is proud to call Nashville home with her husband, Rick, and their two ‘tweenage' children.
