Like five million children in Syria, Omar’s life was shattered in a second when a rocket, dropped from a warplane, hit his village home. His mother explains
“It happened in the early hours of the morning, our home was struck directly. I couldn’t see anything because dust filled the air. I could only hear the cries of my Omar from under the rubble and I couldn’t move to help him because of the shrapnel that filled my body. I was rushed to the hospital, and later learned the news of my husband’s death and the amputation of Omar’s leg. It’s an indescribable moment of my life.”
Without a father or a home, Omar, his mother and grandfather were forced to move to the city of Armanaz, where they visited HIHFAD’s physiotherapy centre. As well as custom-fitting a prosthetic limb, HIHFAD provided continued support to Omar to teach him how to walk again.
In the words of Omar’s mother,