Reports | 25 05 2020
In March, four years ago, Hanadi was standing with her brother Ahmed in the kitchen of the family home in “al-Qusayr” in Homs countryside, when a grenade hit them. 85% of Hanadi’s skin damaged with severe burns as Ahmed suffered of burns on 75% of his body.
According to a story published in the German journal "Yong Welt", that soldiers of the FSA had transported the two brothers in a car to the Lebanese border, where an ambulance pick them up to a hospital in the city of Tripoli. But the doctors there were unable to provide enough assistance due to the lack of artificial skin in the hospital.
The German journalist, Carsten Sturmer, were doing a search in the Syrian refugee camps in Lebanon when he met Ahmed and Hanadi. Sturmer launched a campaign on his Facebook account, in which he said: "Ahmad and Hanadi have serious injuries, and will not be able to survive without help". In six days he was able to collect enough money to send them to Munich on board a plane affiliated with ADAC (German company to save car accidents).
Ten different medicines for the new skin, stomach and pain relievers
Upon arrival at Munich Both Ahmed and Hanadi were suffering from a failure of the functions of several organs, and 15 physicians at the Children's Hospital "Haonrchin Kinderspittal" volunteered to undertake surgeries around the clock for a week to them. Then they remained under artificial hypnosis for eight weeks .
When Hanadi woke up, she wondered: "Germany, what is this?" That was four years ago and still the nostalgia is her daily companion to her father, mother, and two brothers, all of whom had fled to escape the war in Syria, to live in a room in Bekaa, northern Lebanon. Hanadi says: "Here I have a lot, while they have nothing there."
I told my story thousands of times to let people know why refugees need attention
Hanadi currently lives in a housing for girls in the city of Munich, while Ahmed lives in a private room, and the both go to a school for young refugees. Ahmed joined last summer to the voluntary teams in Munich for receiving refugees coming from the Balkan’s way by train, and help in distributing the food baskets and to buck up refugees. Ahmed says: "I and my sister have received a lot of help, refugees need help and attention."
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Ahmed left his hair grow up to his shoulder to hide the remaining scars on his skin. And he goes regularly to the school, hospital, and mosque, and now he supervises the Syrian Peace Coral. " in Germany I discovered that I love singing" said Ahmed. He added: "Refugees can communicate with Germans by singing, to let them know why we came here."
In children's hospital in Munich Ahmed is translating for a mother accompanied by her son, who suffered injuries due to the bombing.