Nearly 6,000 miles from home, Northeast Ohio is helping heal the wounds of war for several Palestinian children.
Farah Isleem played with other children at a Westlake playground Monday. The 12-year-old’s first days in the U.S. have been a flurry of new faces, new language and new culture.She arrived Friday from her home in Gaza.The Palestinian strip along the eastern Mediterranean Sea has been at the center of a Middle Eastern power struggle, where instability and conflict threaten to upend lives and families.
8 year old Saleh, who also lost a leg to an airstrike, and 16-year-old Abdullah, who needed his leg amputated while battling childhood cancer, accompanied Farah to a PCRF welcome picnic at a Westlake Park Monday.“He’ll become more mobile. He’ll be able to become more independent and come and go. And he wants to be a soccer star,” Host father Khalid Bahhur translated for Abdullah.
Since its founding, PCRF has sent more than 2,000 sick and injured children for free medical care and sponsored hundreds of volunteer medical teams to treat tens of thousands of sick and injured young people in local hospitals.
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