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DAMASCUS Cheap Hydro Flask 24 OZ , Nov. 16 (Xinhua) -- Unlike most grown-ups whose dreams seem to have faded away due to the prolonged crisis in Syria, the children, whether rich or poor, still share a smile and a dream of a better tomorrow in a country over-fatigued by more than three and a half years of deadly crisis.


The protracted crisis in Syria has been dragging on for long and once walking down the streets, one could see the weariness over people's faces for all the obvious reasons, whether over the bad living conditions or fears of what the future may hold, especially that the intractable crisis seems to have been gaining more complications as time goes by.


However, the parents' frowning faces, and in some cases their forced smiles, didn't quite reflect on the faces of their children, whose innocence has so far shielded their fragile personalities of a considerable chunk of their parents' tiredness.


Even the children who have been directly affected by the raging war seem more determined than capitulated.


Ahmad, a 13-year-old boy, was striding while making his way through the crowds at the Hamidiyeh Souk in the walled ancient section of the capital Damascus to deliver a cup of coffee to a customer who happened to be a cloth shop owner running his business just meters from a coffee shop.


""I work at a coffee shop as a waiter serving coffee and tea. I would like to become a shop owner to sell toys. I also study and I am good at school,"" Ahmad said.


Ahmad is one of thousands of children who have opted to get simple jobs to help their poor families, which are reeling under the economic hardships produced by the crisis.


Muhammad Badawi, another 14-year old street rose vendor, was confidently standing at a corner in Hamidieyeh, while holding a bucket of red roses strapped to his waist while flattering with "" lovers"" to convince the man to buy his girl a red rose.


The teenager said he dropped out of school because he had to support his family as the family's sole breadwinner.


""I don't study because I am the breadwinner of my family. I have saved some money by selling roses and to establish this small career. I usually sell roses to the lovers who pass by this street. I dream of owning a rose shop when I grow up,"" Badawi said.


Seeing young boys dragging a carriage or holding boxes in the ancient part of Damascus has become increasingly common. They say ""work is not a shame, the shame is to beg or stay frustrated.""


Abdul-Rahman, an 11-year-old kid, said he is still attending school but he helps his brother at his shop in the afternoon. ""I am currently helping my brother in his shop when I return from school every day, but when I grow up I want to become a doctor.""


That was the case for the ""working class"" among the children and teenagers in the capital.


The children of the better-off Syrians are also dreaming of a better future, seemingly careless of the efforts their parents are excreting to keep them away from working or dropping out of schools.


Muhammad Tellawi, an 11-year-old boy, was strolling with his father at the time-honored Marjeh Square in the heart of Damascus, holding his camera and snapping photos of the pigeons flying around the square.


Tellawi said he is a football fan who like to travel a lot with his parents. ""I like sport, particularly football, and my dream is to become a famous football player because I like to travel around the world.""


His sister, Nour, carrying a huge pink cotton candy, also shared her brother's dream of traveling around the world, seeming unwilling to cloud her dreams by the current situation in her country.


""I am in the ninth grade. I like math and English and I dream of becoming an engineer and travelling around the world to build beautiful buildings and skyscrapers.""


However, a lot of Syrian families have recently become reluctant to send their kids to schools or move to safer places inside the capital to be close to safer schools as well.


During the crisis, over 40 attacks, ranging from mortar shelling to suicide bombings, have targeted schools across Syria.


Last month, over 40 kids were killed when a booby-trapped car went off in the pro-government neighborhood of Ekrima in the central province of Homs.


The deadly attack shed light on the immense threat facing the Syrian children. The crisis also destroyed or damaged more than 3, 400 schools, according to Save the Children, an international children's charity.


Humanitarian organizations have sounded the alarm about the repercussions of the prolonged crisis on the well-being of the Syrian kids. By late August 2014, the opposition activist group Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR) reported the number of children killed in the conflict had risen to 9,428.


Kumar Tiku, UNICEF Chief of Communication, told Xinhua that the number of the afflicted people in Syria is staggering, noting that ""it's probably the biggest humanitarian and protection crisis that the world has ever seen since the World War II.""


""More than 12 million people affected, half of them children. Within Syria we estimate more than five million now are children who are in need. There are about 4.3 million people who are in very hard-to-reach areas, a million of these people are children,"" Tiku said.


""We estimate almost two million children are unable to access school with any amount of regularity. Half a million children will add to the legions of dropouts this year,"" he added.


He said his organization is looking at reaching one million children this year with what they call ""back to school"" supplies. ""This is a promise to the Syrian children. We reached one million children last year. A lot many more need to be reached in this country.""


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