Abd Al Gader, a 12-year-old with big, dark eyes (green shirt) could barely walk when he arrived at the Zaatari refugee camp in the Jordanian desert after escaping the war in Syria. Suffering from tuberculosis and having run out of medicine, Abd Al Gader fled with his family from their farm east of Damascus with the few belongings they could carry and embarked on a dangerous journey towards safety. Abd Al Gader’s cough worsened as the family trekked for days, sleeping in the open during cold, February nights and enduring shelling and thieves, before finally reaching the border. “We lost our crops and our house was destroyed,” said the boy’s father, Awash. “I feared for his life. That is when I decided we had to leave.” In Zaatari, the family settled into a tentAbd Al Gader resumed his TB treatment at the camp’s clinic. Today, cured of the disease, he is strong enough to play football with his friends in a dusty pitch and to attend one of the camp’s schools.