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From NBC News world headquarters in New York, this is NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams. Hidden in the crowded back streets of Damascus 시리아의 수도, you find them, thousands of Iraqi refugee 피난자 children, many hard at work. Inside this tiny shop, we found Usef Alabater, age 15. Usef says he works here 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

 

He’s been doing this for three years. Forced to be the family breadwinner 집안의 벌이하는 사람 after losing his father and brother in Iraq. The $18 a week he earns barely pays the rent on the dingy 거무죽죽한, 때묻은 apartment he shares with his mother, sister and older brother. Our life is very difficult, his mother says. I didn’t have a choice. I had to send him to work.

 

Of <문두에 쓰이면> ~중에서 the estimated 1.5 million Iraqi refugees in Syria, it’s estimated half are children. Neither adult nor child refugees are legally allowed to work. But the children slip ~를 벗어나다 more easily under the radar.

 

Some do attend school which Syria provides free of charge. But only those who aren’t working have time to go. The impact on all these children is not only short term. What happens if they grow up, Stateless 국적이 없는, undereducated, poor. It’s a recipe 방법, 비결 for creating a whole generation of alienated 멀리하다, 소원하게 하다 angry Iraqis.

 

Nore Rahadratife along with his brother supports a family of eight. He hasn’t been in school since they left Iraq a year ago. We have to stay here, he says. If we go back to Baghdad, we’ll be killed. He earns $2 a day. “These children are going to build the future of Iraq. And it’s clear that if we have a population that is not educated, it’s going to take decades for the country to recover.”

 

As for Usef, he still has the optimism of youth. He’d like to go to university one day and become a doctor. Though his chances and that of his whole generation slip further away each day. Donna Frizen, NBC News, Damascus.

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