Keefek ya ummi (4 of 6)
In Syria, Mother’s Day is on March 21st; it was two days before I met with Raghad in her home for this interview. She was telling me that she had received so many happy mother’s day messages from refugees. “SubhanAllah. I was so happy,” she said beaming. The first person to call her was Fadi, who 10 days earlier had had surgery to deal with wounds in his left arm from being shot in Syria. “Every time he calls me, he says keefek ya ummi; it means, how are you my mother. It’s really touching, SubhanAllah.” Some people traveled far distances to come to a bazaar Raghad was organizing in DC to see her. "One girl when she hugged me, she cried and cried and cried; she made me cry,” Raghad tells me. “She said I miss my mother so much and I see you as my mother.”(4 of 6)Photo: George KolotovPlease support Raghad's efforts to care for the needs of refugee families by donating to Mozaic: http://www.mozaicinc.org