August 13, 2014
Syria
“Children were dying of hunger. There was no milk to feed newborn babies,” said Amal, a 27-year-old mother who has recently fled from Damascus. “People were eating cats and dogs. We were boiling grass in water to make it go further. You hated the day because there was nothing to eat and you hated the night because there was nothing to eat,” she said. Read more on caritas.org.