Kim Dong-ju, World Vision International Relief and Vulnerable Area Project Team Leader March is an exceptionally busy month for me. A warm spring begins, but there is also a wedding anniversary, a wife’s birthday, and a 3-year-old daughter’s birthday. I have been to many places with my child, but if I choose the place where my child was happiest, it would be a zoo. I can’t forget the smile of the child looking at a variety of animals, including tigers, rabbits, and penguins. But on the other side of the globe, there are children who have never been to the zoo. For us, ordinary and natural things are unusual for children. A few years ago, I visited a refugee camp in Jordan, where Syrian refugees live, for business monitoring. Since 2016, World Vision Korea has opened a kindergarten in a refugee camp and has been supporting the emotional recovery of refugee children through educational activities such as physical education, art, and music. Some children clearly remember the gunshots of war, while others were born in refugee camps in Jordan or in neighboring countries and have never been to Syria. Sadly, for children born in a refugee camp, the refugee camp in which they live is all of the world they have experienced. Here, students learn about the world outside the camp through books, pictures, or television presented by teachers in kindergarten or school. Of course, I have never been to a zoo, and I have never seen or touched an animal with my own eyes. Over the past decade, the Syrian civil war has resulted in economic losses of more than 1,300 trillion won. However, beyond economic figures, the situations in which children cannot go to school, are not treated, and have lost their dreams due to forced early marriage and poverty cannot be converted in any way. Even more sadly, about 5 million Syrian children were born and 55,000 children died in the 10 years after the outbreak of the Syrian civil war. In particular, since 2014, the mortality rate of children has increased by more than half and life expectancy has decreased by 13 years. These numbers alone can give an indication of the seriousness of the Syrian Decade, but nonetheless, there are some things these numbers don’t tell us enough. As I raise my daughter, I feel more stiff. The value of one life and how deep and wide the potential that one child can unfold. All children are born with the potential to do anything and be anything, but children born and raised in the situation of the war in Syria have lost their chances. How would we feel if we had my child among 5 million children, and my nephew and younger brother among 55,000 children? The price we must pay to restore the daily life and childhood of the children taken away by the war will be more than our imagination. We must be vigilant and afraid of the continuation of this war. And as an adult living the same time with Syrian children, we will have to do our best in each place for this. The effort is not difficult. It starts with remembering Syria without forgetting it. World Vision Korea is launching a petition campaign to urge the international community to provide necessary assistance to Syrian children suffering from war. I believe that hearts for Syrian children will come together to make a difference. I hope you will join the belief as you read this so that war will not be remembered as a normal routine for children.