Thousands of Syrian teenager growing alone in Germany, after traveling to Europe without their parents, living as refugees can be very dangerous.
For their families, the decision to allow their teenage children to go to flee just because of one thing, it is their last hope to have a normal life.
In order to save themselves from their countries affected by conflict, the teens Syria has crossed the Mediterranean, sleeping on the streets of Europe, coordinated by smugglers, also had to deal with the border guards.
They only rely on Whatsapp and social media to keep in touch with their families, and hope that one day they can regroup.
This is the story of three teenage refugees who will share his story, as told by a reporter from Al Jazeera Caelainn Hogan:
Outside the central train station in Hamburg, Ahmed was in the crowd when the rush-hour. He looked at his cell phone screens, Whatsapp waiting for a call from his father.
"It's been eight months I did not see my family," said Ahmed. "I do not want to use the video call, because one of us was going to cry."
This station is the place where he first arrived in September, after a long journey alone through the Europe of Reyhanli, Turkish border town, where his family lived as refugees.
When I (reporter Caelainn Hogan) to meet her family in March, on a terrace above the dusty family apartment in Reyhanli, they spoke to Ahmed through Whatsapp from Germany. His father, Mustafa, held the phone in his palm, three little girls swarm around him.
"Last night, I dreamed Ahmed home," said Sara who was 6 years old, his father.
His father wiping tears with the back of his hand. "He said that to me every day," he said.
Ahmed to contact his father every day, sometimes on the way to school on the train or in the camp.
Ahmed's family left their home in Ariha, Syria to the north, nearly three years ago. He remembered the sound of tank cannon which made her sisters crying in terror, but he can not stop them crying.
Mustafa is an Arabic teacher, and Mrs. Ahmed, Nahed, working in the department of supervision of the local university. Now, Mustafa just be an unofficial taxi driver and was unable to pay the rent.
While in Turkey, Ahmed follows an unofficial school for refugees, but could not get any diploma. With dreams of becoming a doctor, he felt compelled to study at a university at all costs.
"In my class, at least five people fled to Europe, all of them my age," he said. "I wanted to go to a better place."
He explained that he begged to be allowed to go to Europe or back to Syria, until his father finally agreed.
"My father thought it was better for me to die in the sea than in the chapter," he explained. "He wants to rescue at least one person from our family."
Ahmed uses the bus to Izmir, Turkey. On the beach, people smugglers put on a small boat packed, toward Greece in complete darkness.
"I'm seven hours in our boat and almost drowned four times," he said.
When not hear from Ahmed, Mustafa sure his son had drowned. He was still shaken to remember what happened that night.
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