This fellow's heart is in the right place.
Toothpaste, a taste of normality for Syrian refugee children
Rym Ghazal
August 10, 2014
Clutching a teddy bear in one arm and a balloon in another, the little boy with a deep scar under his eye looked up and asked in Arabic, very gently, almost a whisper: Khala (aunt) Rym. Can I have toothpaste for my sisters and I?
The children next to him overheard and joined in: Yes please. Toothpaste!
I had travelled from the UAE to Lebanon to give out Eid gifts to Syrian refugee children, packing everything I could think of that a child in need would want for Eid.
Yet it never ever occurred to me that they would want something as basic as toothpaste.
Tracking down toothpaste and more than 200 pink tooth brushes, the only ones available in bulk from the nearest store in one of the mountainous areas of Lebanon, there was a moments worry that the boys might object to the colour.
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Toothpaste, a taste of normality for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon | The National
Toothpaste, a taste of normality for Syrian refugee children
Rym Ghazal
August 10, 2014
Clutching a teddy bear in one arm and a balloon in another, the little boy with a deep scar under his eye looked up and asked in Arabic, very gently, almost a whisper: Khala (aunt) Rym. Can I have toothpaste for my sisters and I?
The children next to him overheard and joined in: Yes please. Toothpaste!
I had travelled from the UAE to Lebanon to give out Eid gifts to Syrian refugee children, packing everything I could think of that a child in need would want for Eid.
Yet it never ever occurred to me that they would want something as basic as toothpaste.
Tracking down toothpaste and more than 200 pink tooth brushes, the only ones available in bulk from the nearest store in one of the mountainous areas of Lebanon, there was a moments worry that the boys might object to the colour.
Read more:
Toothpaste, a taste of normality for Syrian refugee children in Lebanon | The National
