Iran's Forgotten Orphans by kera mickus

Photographed by Ali Arkady

In July, Ali Arkady began his quest to Baghdad to picture the heartbreaking abandonment in the young generation if Iran. He hoped to photograph and invest time with the children of war, who neither had their parents nor extended family to care for them; they were left to the mercy of safe houses. These children have grown up and been bred into war; a 2003 US invasion, regional violence in 2007/8, and recent ISIS terrorist uprises.

"Where is my mom? Do you think one day she will come to take me home?" a boy asked Arkady during his time there.

"That moment, tears rolled down my eyes," the photographer said. "But I told him: 'We are your family and your friends. We are here for you.'" 

During Akady's journey, he spent time teaching the children how to use his camera, how to paint, and and worked on a documentary over the children as well as fleeing Yazidi girls.

Synthesis:
Jane Addams Hull Houses/ Settlement Houses. Safe houses were established for the abandoned children who lacked family, and hull houses did a similar thing that aided refugees/ immigrants who had neither family nor the resources to survive in America.

Source:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/22/middleeast/cnnphotos-iraq-orphans/index.html