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Mat Tinkler

Mat Tinkler

Mat Tinkler is chief executive of Save the Children, Australia.

Australian Shayma Assaad (2nd from right) amongst other Australian women and children in al Hawl camp in North East Syria. There are 20 Australian women and 46 Australian children detained in al Hawl camp for their association with Islamic State fighters. They are living in squalid conditions and are afraid of the war that started when Turkey invaded the Kurdish region known as Rojava in North East Syria, Syria, October 21, 2019.

An eight-year-old Australian girl with rotten teeth, trapped in a desert camp, did not make her own bed

When I travelled to Roj camp in 2022 I looked into the eyes of a girl whose frame was so small and frail that she looked much younger than my own daughter, who was five at the time. She was showing signs of stunting from poor nutrition.

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