The 21-year-old man, who is a refugee at the Za’atari Camp in Jordan, handed the note to Nasset Touaibia of the UN, who made the piece public.
Below is a transcript of the letter.
‘I am a miserable Syrian refugee living in Za’atari camp. I am working as a dustman…to support my parents and my sister.
Before coming to Jordan I suffered greatly from the dreadful and catastrophic events that took place in my counter, Syria, and are still taking place, air raid, shelling, bombing, tanks, snipers, and killing everywhere.
Our house was destroyed and thousands of people were killed. These terrible and this affected us negatively.
'What’s our sin and fault? Aren’t we worthy of honourable life?'
My sister and I quit our university study and lost our dreams and ambitions thereby we were both outstanding students studying English literature at Damascus university, Syria.
We have been living in Zaatari camp for two years. This long period of false promises to continue our study and to make up for the lost time made us really hopeless and despaired.
My sister, who has spent three bitter successive years without study, sheds tears day by night. She is a pitiful state lying in the caravan.
'Our life has become unbearable hell. Please help us.'
Both of us have lost the most precious thing in our life, our study. We are helpless… no one supports us.
We address you and everyone as representatives of humanity, justice and civilisation to helps us by any possible means to get ride of this bad situation.
Our request is to help us as possible as you can through registering my family’s name and number in the lists of immigration related to the high commissioner for refugees to contact us for immigration to any European country, U.S.A, Australia or Canada in order to continue our study there and to live peacefully and happily for life.
If we have the chance to live there, we’ll fulfill our dreams.
Aren’t we human beings? Are we born to eat, drink and sleep only?
What’s our sin and fault? Aren’t we worthy of honourable life?
Our life has become unbearable hell. Please help us.
This is our UNHCR ration card.’
If this doesn’t make you appreciate what you have today, nothing will.