Center for Syrian child laborers shut down by the pandemic

Salim Abdul Ghani ran a center in Gaziantep, a city in Turkey near the border with Syria, which helped Syrian child laborers get therapy and education. But the COVID-19 pandemic has shut it down for a whole year, and Abdul Ghani worries about the fate of the children who had been benefiting from it. The World’s Shirin Jaafari reports.

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