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Notes from the Field
Little Man
by Rick Perera, Media
& Communications Officer Just 12 years old, he carries the weight of the world on his narrow shoulders. The eldest of five children of a widowed mother, Sajjad Ahmad feels responsible for his family. It’s not easy being the man of the house at such a young age. 
His childhood was cut short a month ago, when his family
fled their home in The Ahmad family is crowded, along with 80 other newly
homeless people, into this three-room schoolhouse in the There’s sadness in Sajjad’s eyes, but tenderness too, as he drapes his arms around his little sister Hadiya, 8, and their two-year-old brother Waqas. “I miss my classmates and friends,” says the third-grader.
What would you like to do when you grow up, I ask – imagining that, with typical youthful optimism, he might have big dreams: doctor, engineer, pilot. Instead, Sajjad sees a future of duty and devotion. “I want to take care of my mother,” he says. “We want peace.”
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