Composite: Guardian Design; Supplied imageHazem Rahma, 39, is a director at Mubarrat Al Rehmat orphanage in Gaza City. Five of our wards are girls who are over 18, but since they have no families they stay with us. I carried Iyas, a five-year-old with cerebral palsy who is blind and deaf, and my six-year-old son walked next to me. Another challenge I did not expect is that we are getting new children to look after. We have a three-month-old boy – we called him Malek – a two-month-old girl, Yazan, and a five-week-old girl with Down’s syndrome.

Source: The Guardian July 26, 2024 22:57 UTC