Hussam Al Roustom looks tired. He escaped the war in Syria in March 2013, with his wife Suha and their two small children. They fled from their hometown of Homs with little more than the clothes they wore. "I didn't want to leave my country, but it wasn't safe for my children any more. Missiles and shells dropped on houses, people couldn't get enough food, then medicine stopped coming to our area," says Hussam, whose seven-year-old son Wesam has autism. So the Al Roustoms and a handful other families drove across Syria in a crowded pick-up truck until they got close to the Jordanian border. From there, they trekked for four hours through the Syrian desert into Jordan and finally found safety...
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