“Life had been going so well for me before the war came. I’m a driver, and I’d just saved enough money to buy a new car. I was starting a family. My father had given us a house and we’d bought all new furniture. But one day a mortar destroyed a wall of our house. It was too dangerous to stay. I left because of the children. The years we’ve spent as refugees have been very tough, but we’ve just learned that we’re going to Detroit, Michigan. I have a brother-in-law who says it’s very nice there. He says he is allowed to work legally and officially. So hopefully I can start driving again. He says there is heating in the houses and the water is warm when you shower. And he says that America cares about children. He tells me that there is a bus that picks them up and takes them to school.” (Amman, Jordan)

I chose this picture because it shows how not only adults in these countries are threatened but children too. Many people living in the United States take it for granted. As I am sitting in my house right now I am not worrying about a mortar destroying my house or anything to that but these people have to constantly worry about their homes being bombed or possibly destroyed or their lives at risk. Jordan Amman and his family had to go to another country and start all over again and put all his hope into what his brother in law told him but at the end of the day you can tell all he cared about was that America cares about children.