This image took my breath away, in it I’m sure we all recognize a hundred faces of our own nieces, daughters and little friends. How refugee children sleep in Europe in 2018…. I wish for her a warm bed with the softest blankets and a princess netting just because it’s pretty, not to keep out hundreds of mosquitoes, and a nightlight in the shape of the moon. All of these things inside a safe and happy home. A garden and toys to play with, a school to go to. Just the normal and most basic rights for any child. – m. graeve

 

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‘compassion brings us to a stop, and for a moment we rise above ourselves.’

-mason cooley

 

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image credit: muhammed muheisen,

story credits: open homes open hearts, merel graeve – stories from the ground