After travelling out to Aida Camp in Bethlehem, West Bank. We distributed backpacks to the children who were about to start school after Eid-ul-Adha. The way they hugged the backpacks it made me write the following…

This backpack is the world

It holds within hope

A hope of change

A flicker of freedom

This backpack is a dream

Filled with education

A chance for change

A fight for freedom

This backpack is mine

Something I can hold

A chance given

I stand for freedom. 

Jeeda Joseph