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DWF - Syrien Refugees in Iowa
Syrian Refugees
Sedra Tameem walks her younger sister and brother, Hala and Mutaz, to their busstop in the family's Des Moines neighborhood.
Ghazweh Aljabooli and her husband, Abdul Fattah Tameem, are refugees from Syria who were placed in Des Moines, Iowa with their five children. The family's hometown of Homs has seen some of the most fierce fighting and destruction of the civil war in Syria. For two years the family fled fighting within Syria before making it to Jordan, where they began the long process of of getting refugee status in the United States. From Jordan, Aljabooli and Tameem and their children were flown to Iowa to start a new life in middle America. While the transition has not been easy Tameem says, "the only positive thing is my kids are safe, this is essential."
Iowa's Republican Governor, Terry Branstad, has apposed Syrian refugees being placed in his state. The federal government is in charge of refugee settlement though, and the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, a nonprofit that contracts with the U.S. Department of State, settled the Tameem family in Des Moines.
© Danny Wilcox Frazier/VII
19/09/2016 6611
19/09/2016
DWF - Syrien Refugees in Iowa
Syrian Refugees
Sedra Tameem walks her younger sister and brother, Hala and Mutaz, to their busstop in the family's Des Moines neighborhood.
Ghazweh Aljabooli and her husband, Abdul Fattah Tameem, are refugees from Syria who were placed in Des Moines, Iowa with their five children. The family's hometown of Homs has seen some of the most fierce fighting and destruction of the civil war in Syria. For two years the family fled fighting within Syria before making it to Jordan, where they began the long process of of getting refugee status in the United States. From Jordan, Aljabooli and Tameem and their children were flown to Iowa to start a new life in middle America. While the transition has not been easy Tameem says, "the only positive thing is my kids are safe, this is essential."
Iowa's Republican Governor, Terry Branstad, has apposed Syrian refugees being placed in his state. The federal government is in charge of refugee settlement though, and the U.S. Committee for Refugees and Immigrants, a nonprofit that contracts with the U.S. Department of State, settled the Tameem family in Des Moines.
© Danny Wilcox Frazier/VII
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Afghanistan
The school of Kot got used by Daesh as their district center. They destroyed the buildings before they left. Now the girls of Kot district cannot attend school anymore as the boys are in outdoors. Kot April 2016
© Véronique de Viguerie
09/04/2016 3762
09/04/2016
Afghanistan
The school of Kot got used by Daesh as their district center. They destroyed the buildings before they left. Now the girls of Kot district cannot attend school anymore as the boys are in outdoors. Kot April 2016
© Véronique de Viguerie
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Afghanistan
The school of Kot got used by Daesh as their district center. They destroyed the buildings before they left. Now the girls of Kot district cannot attend school anymore as the boys are in outdoors. Kot April 2016
© Véronique de Viguerie
09/04/2016 3764
09/04/2016
Afghanistan
The school of Kot got used by Daesh as their district center. They destroyed the buildings before they left. Now the girls of Kot district cannot attend school anymore as the boys are in outdoors. Kot April 2016
© Véronique de Viguerie
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Afghanistan
The school of Kot got used by Daesh as their district center. They destroyed the buildings before they left. Now the girls of Kot district cannot attend school anymore as the boys are in outdoors. Kot April 2016
© Véronique de Viguerie
09/04/2016 3763
09/04/2016
Afghanistan
The school of Kot got used by Daesh as their district center. They destroyed the buildings before they left. Now the girls of Kot district cannot attend school anymore as the boys are in outdoors. Kot April 2016
© Véronique de Viguerie
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Train for the forgotten
Svetlana Vishniakova was the school mistress in Chilchi, but had a stroke; her right side is now paralyzed and she cannot speak. Her daughter-in-law cares for her.
William Daniels
31/05/2013 2582
31/05/2013
Train for the forgotten
Svetlana Vishniakova was the school mistress in Chilchi, but had a stroke; her right side is now paralyzed and she cannot speak. Her daughter-in-law cares for her.
William Daniels
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Mines
Tavos, 14, no legs after blowing up on a mine that was planted for his Uncle, propels himself home in his wheelchair after school. Suburb of Kabul, Afghanistan. July, 2003.
2003©Jane Evelyn Atwood
01/07/2003 4059
01/07/2003
Mines
Tavos, 14, no legs after blowing up on a mine that was planted for his Uncle, propels himself home in his wheelchair after school. Suburb of Kabul, Afghanistan. July, 2003.
2003©Jane Evelyn Atwood
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Why mister why? The united States of America versus Iraq, the year of occupation.
IRAQ, Baghdad. 2003-05-06.
Abbas Saddam Shaghaty (34) squatters with his family the lavatory of a primary school in Sadr City. Abbas was badly tortured by the former Saddam regime, as he deserted from the Iraqi army. "There are no jobs, the school is closed, at night we can hardly sleep because of the mosquitoes, my wheat is almost finished and I have no money nor food. I must prepare myself to die", Abbas says. UNICEF director Carel de Rooy was more positive. "We can not and will not accept people like him dying. We can built schools in Saddam City from the donations we received. This provides jobs and income for many people and hope for a better future for the children. If we work really hard, all together, we can change this situation into something positive."
Geert Van Kesteren
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Why mister why? The united States of America versus Iraq, the year of occupation.
IRAQ, Baghdad. 2003-05-06.
Abbas Saddam Shaghaty (34) squatters with his family the lavatory of a primary school in Sadr City. Abbas was badly tortured by the former Saddam regime, as he deserted from the Iraqi army. "There are no jobs, the school is closed, at night we can hardly sleep because of the mosquitoes, my wheat is almost finished and I have no money nor food. I must prepare myself to die", Abbas says. UNICEF director Carel de Rooy was more positive. "We can not and will not accept people like him dying. We can built schools in Saddam City from the donations we received. This provides jobs and income for many people and hope for a better future for the children. If we work really hard, all together, we can change this situation into something positive."
Geert Van Kesteren