“
Are you going to take my wool off?
".
Naquibullah looks a little worried at the doctor and sits down on the cot.
The "
wool
" is the huge stitches along his left collarbone.
Katrin Huskamp gently pulls them away, the skin is purplish, but Naquibullah says nothing.
“
They are amazing.
They never complain.
They've been sick for months
, years, their features contorted with pain, but they never cry.
»
The doctor slowly shakes her head and smiles at him.
Naquibullah smiled back.
He's 11, from Ghazni, Afghanistan, and his beige overalls conceal two other leg injuries, similar to the one on his collarbone.
Here too, the “
wool
” must be disinfected, as it is customary to say within the “
Friedensdorf
”, the “
peace village
” of North Rhine-Westphalia, which welcomes 163 children from seven countries. different.
A unique place, an association in the heart of the Ruhr which is not funded…
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