The Forgotten Millions: The human toll

Name: The Forgotten Millions - Children of the Syrian Crisis
Uploaded: 2015-03-06T05:00:00+13:00
Duration: 209 s
Description: The New Zealand Herald and World Vision have launched The Forgotten Millions campaign to raise funds to meet an immense and urgent humanitarian need. With your help we can make a difference for the children and their families in desperate need throughout this region

Herald on Sunday

12 Sep, 2015 05:00 PM2 mins to read

The New Zealand Herald and World Vision have launched The Forgotten Millions campaign to raise funds to meet an immense and urgent humanitarian need. With your help we can make a difference for the children and their families in desperate need throughout this region

We need you to help the Forgotten Millions one more time. The Herald and World Vision have relaunched a major campaign to raise funds and help the millions of children left homeless by war in Syria. With your help we can make a difference to the children and their families in desperate need throughout this region

Rachel Smalley, photographer Jo Currie and videographer Bradley Ambrose are travelling with World Vision for the Herald's Forgotten Millions Campaign to the epicentre of the refugee crisis in Europe. Today, Currie captures images revealing the human toll of the crisis.

Malak, 8 months old, above, and her grandmother Fatima are from Daraa in Syria. They travelled from Turkey to Serbia and were in the country one day before they walked for the border.

Three generations of the family are travelling together; Malak, her parents and her grandparents. They hope to reach Germany this week.

Qais is from Aleppo

Qais from Aleppo in Syria. Photo / Jo Currie / World Vision

Three-year-old Qais is from Aleppo. He is spending the night with his parents and sister in a holding camp inside Hungary.

His family left Aleppo three years ago and moved to the countryside, but when the fighting intensified they crossed the border into Turkey.

Ousama the widower

Ousama is from Damascus with his two daughters, Wafa and Seema. Photo / Jo Currie / World Vision

Ousama is from Damascus. He has two daughters, Wafa, 7, and Seema, 6, and is a widower. His wife was killed by ISIS.

Six months ago they began entering homes and raping and killing women and Ousama's wife was stabbed to death.

He says his daughters have suffered enough and he wants to move to Europe to give them a better life.

"Death boat" from Turkey

Abraham and Zachary. Photo / Jo Currie / World Vision

Abraham and Zachary, 2, are from Al-Hasakah and came to Serbia after sailing to Greece on a rubber dinghy "death boat" from Turkey.

Abraham brought Zachary to a medical clinic in Belgrade because he had a bad cough. The doctor said Zachary has a virus that is becoming increasingly common among refugee children.