Iraq’s Refugee Children: Five Years On

As March marks the fifth anniversary of the Coalition invasion of Iraq, some steps have been taken to improve the lives of those displaced; Jordan has opened up it’s classrooms to 50,000 Iraqi refugees this academic year, and an amnesty was issued for those refugees living in Lebanon. Yet more action is urgently needed if we are to offer meaningful hope to the trapped generation of Iraqi youth. Photographs by Ashley Clements. Text by meero regional communications team