‘I wanted to be in that picture, like the people who helped my people. I should be that person to someone else.’

Beril Eski

December 12, 2023

In late October, three Syrian men sat drinking afternoon tea and eating rice pudding in a Turkish restaurant in the heart of Ukraine's capital, Kyiv. The men chatted merrily with each other and with the waiters, clearly having become regulars. What brought them here – thousands of kilometres from their own war-affected country – was the desire to help.

“I sympathised with Ukrainians because Russia was our common enemy,” one of the men, 36-year-old Nour Hallak, told The New Humanitarian.

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