Let the children play: the man who built a playground on Lesbos | World news | The Guardian
▻https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/oct/12/let-the-children-play-man-who-built-playground-lesbos-salam-aldeen
Eyes glued to the screen, mouths wide open, they watch the final scene of the Disney film Aladdin.
When the movie ends, the faces of nearly 500 children turn gloomy and tears fall down their cheeks. They come from Afghanistan, Syria and Iraq, and the time has come for them to return to their tents and metal containers in the squalid Moria camp on Lesbos. No one is getting out of here on a magic carpet.
Dozens of the 3,000 minors here have attempted suicide because of overcrowding, squalor and their hopeless situation. But one man is trying to make things a little better for the children abandoned on Europe’s doorstep.
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