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Ali Haj Suleiman, Husam Hezaber

‘My soul and beating heart’: Orphaned Syrian children find new family

Infants and toddlers playing in the Child Houses centre [Ali Haj Suleiman/Al Jazeera]

Idlib, Syria – Nearly a year ago, Nader Mohammed Al-Bakri, 43, and his wife, displaced people from the southern Idlib countryside, met their little girl Jouri.

Nader and his wife of 22 years, who have lived in the town of Sarmada since 2013, underwent several surgeries and lengthy treatments to conceive, all without success. They were desperate to have a child.

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