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NameEmal and Sibal
Genderfemale
Country of OriginSyrian Arab Republic
Destination CountryTurkey

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s-1 Emal, 5, and Sibal, 7, are two young sisters living with their mother, grandmother and extended family in Gaziantep, Turkey.
s-2 Emal was born with a cleft lip, a birth defect where there is a congenital split between the upper lip into the nose.
s-3 Before the surgery, she would be terrified of eating pasta because it would usually end up coming out of her nose, recalls Fatma, their mother.
s-4 While easily treatable through surgery, the family had no access or means to have procedure carried out while living in Aleppo as the war raged on.
s-5 We were sitting in our garden one day drinking tea when I saw a plane circling above us, and then I saw the bomb drop off the plane.
s-6 The bombs nearly destroyed our entire neighbourhood.
s-7 Almost every home held a funeral yet somehow we survived, but that was a sign for us that we had to leave Syria, recounts Fatma.
s-8 Upon reaching Gaziantep, Turkey, the girls family searched for a doctor to carry out the needed surgery.
s-9 While medical care is offered to Syrian refugees within the country, the hospitals in the city were too busy to treat Emal so they were referred to a hospital in Ankara.
s-10 Unfortunately for them, they had no means of travelling to the Turkish capital.
s-11 Eventually, their case was referred to IOM which arranged transportation for the entire family to Ankara where Emal underwent the procedure.
s-12 Today, Emals bright smile shows no visible signs of her former cleft lip.
s-13 While her younger sister is now fully recovered from her surgery, Sibal recently faced a challenge of her own - how to get to school.
s-14 She is old enough to be in school but its too far away from our home and we have no way to get her there.
s-15 We have no car or money for transportation, says Fatma.
s-16 Following up on the familys case, IOM also began providing school transportation to the seven year old.
s-17 Its really amazing what they have done for my two girls, says the happy mother.

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