Gabriel takes his little red car with him everywhere. It is the same colour as his father's car. At only six years old, Gabriel was with his father when another car deliberately smashed into theirs. He saw his dying father being robbed of his fathers gold wedding band as he sat helplessly beside him.
World Vision reported that 43 percent of children surveyed in Amman, Jordan witnessed violence in Iraq. Another 39 percent said they had lost someone close through violence.

As March marks the fifth anniversary of the Coalition invasion of Iraq, some steps have been taken to improve the lives of those displaced; Jordan has opened up it’s classrooms to 50,000 Iraqi refugees this academic year, and an amnesty was issued for those refugees living in Lebanon. Yet more action is urgently needed if we are to offer meaningful hope to the trapped generation of Iraqi youth. Photographs by Ashley Clements. Text by meero regional communications team