Nine years of war in Syria have given 14-year-old Kareem Haddad (name changed to protect his security) a lot of reasons to want to study medicine, especially neurology. When Kareem was in second grade, his father, a pharmacist, was killed by shrapnel on the streets of Jaramana.
Mennonite Central Committee
Refugees and other displaced people living in Jordan, Lebanon and Syria already were struggling to subsist before COVID-19 became a health and economic threat.
