Berlin protests: 740 teddy bears for 7, 40,000 Syrian refugee kids denied education
Berlin protests: 740 teddy bears for 7, 40,000 Syrian refugee kids denied education
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740 teddy bears were placed on the steps of a Berlin concert hall on Thursday to draw world- attention to the dilemma of Syrian refugee kids on the seventh anniversary of the country's civil war.

Organizers, World Vision Germany, said 740 bears represented 7, 40,000 refugee children at present being denied an education, many of them in camps close to the Syrian border.

One of the young people caught up in the protest was 18-year-old Syrian refugee Hussam Alheraky. He said he was happy to be getting an education in Germany, but wanted to highlight the doom of thousands of young refugees children living in poor conditions in Jordanian border camps with no right to get the education.

8-year old Syrian refugee kid, Hussam Alheraky said, "It's the seventh anniversary of the revolution. This means something big: that the world didn't do anything. The world has no conscience. If they had reacted, it (the war) wouldn't have lasted seven years,” as quoted by DD news.

World Vision Germany head, Christoph Waffenschmidt stated, "We took those teddy bears, 740, and we placed them on the stairs of the Konzerthaus, the concert hall here at the Gendarmenmarkt...they have not only lost their home when they had to flee from Syria, but without education, they will lose their future."

World Vision Germany also informed that the bears used in the protest would later on be donated to refugee kids in Berlin and Jordan.

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