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Amir hadn\u2019t had time to understand what was happening. A dull roar, the ground shaking violently, then silence\u2014broken only by the crashing of collapsing buildings and scream<\/em>s. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In February 2023, he was ten years old when, in an instant, Karm-Dodo\u2014the Aleppo neighborhood that had been his whole world since birth\u2014turned into a nightmare. After the earthquake, their home was nearly gone: uninhabitable, just a pile of stones and rubble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His family is large: five siblings, with Amir the second youngest and Fadi the youngest, only four at the time. They were welcomed into the small home of a neighboring family, where seven people now lived in a single room. Their father, disabled from a past heart attack, is not fully self-sufficient\u2014his needs made the emergency situation even harder to bear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amir now spends most of his time on the street: partly to escape, partly to find a sense of play and freedom so vital for a child his age. His little brother Fadi follows him everywhere, imitating everything he does. The street becomes their home\u2014and with it, all its dangers: drugs, child labor, the harsh realities of a Syria devastated by war and earthquake. Even the older siblings start working, trying to earn a salary to help lift the family out of this crisis.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One day, the children\u2019s mother hears about the Franciscan Care Center<\/strong> of Pro Terra Sancta<\/em> in Aleppo: a center supporting struggling families by offering practical and psychological help, along with school and therapeutic activities for children at risk of child labor. Seeing how vulnerable her children had become, she makes a decision: she goes to the Franciscan Care Center and asks for help\u2014to rebuild their home and reclaim their life.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Pro Terra Sancta<\/em> volunteers inspect the house, they find it uninhabitable and completely emptied by thieves who had taken advantage of its temporary abandonment. No furniture, no electrical wires, no water pipes\u2014the house had been stripped bare and left exposed to the approaching winter cold. The team immediately gets to work: they rebuild the walls, reinforce what remains, restore the wiring and plumbing, and install new windows to protect from the freezing weather. Every day of work is a step out of the emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The home comes back to life, becoming a place of warmth and comfort. Amir and Fadi are once again sleeping in their own beds, looking through closed windows at the destroyed city beneath the winter wind. And instead of wandering the rubble-strewn streets, Amir now goes back to school, full of new hope\u2014thanks to the certainty that someone stands behind him and his family in facing this emergency.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Amir hadn\u2019t had time to understand what was happening. A dull roar, the ground shaking violently, then silence\u2014broken only by the crashing of collapsing buildings and screams. In February 2023, he was ten years old when, in an instant, Karm-Dodo\u2014the Aleppo neighborhood that had been his whole world since birth\u2014turned into a nightmare. 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