awaken by the sounds of carnage, Aleppo's youngest are up and ready to head to their temporary school yards. This one only 20 meters from the front line.

I was asked to avoid taking any photos of the actual premises of the school, those from here were certain that any documentation of civil presence in the city would be dealt with punishment. This here a few steps into the entrance of the building.

this is a residential building, recently altered to a school due to the extreme danger of compounds that have become a constant target to Russian and Syrian regime airstrikes. here a teacher fills a student in with her day's duties.

Just before heading down the steps to the classrooms the headmaster of the school invites us in to her office for a talk. "This is the support we get young man" in her hand a group of pencils she said were pass to her by those with a conscience, "but this is not enough" she stressed