[deanmine]

In the middle of the vast, rocky desert, a little boy, separated from his family, looked to be wandering alone, carrying all his worldly possessions in a plastic bag half his height, United Nations officials said.
The stark, heart-breaking photo shows the boy, 4-year-old Marwan, being met by blue-vest United Nations aid workers. It was captured by Andrew Harper, the United Nations Refugee Agency’s coordinator in Jordan, who posted it on Twitter before it shot around the Internet on Monday. Though the photo makes it look like he was all alone, he had been separated from a larger group in what Harper called “the chaos of the mass refugee [crossing.]”
“Unfortunately in every mass refugee [crossing] to Jordan, it is the elderly, sick, pregnant & often children that fall behind the main groups,” Harper tweeted after the image went viral.
Marwan had just crossed Syria’s southern desert border on Sunday into northern Jordan, joining the ranks of the almost 600,000 Syrian refugees registered with the U.N. who have fled to Jordan to escape the almost three-year war in Syria that has now left more than 140,000 dead.
After the picture was taken, Marwan was reunited with his mother, Harper said.

[deanmine]

the mom got the kid back.... hummmmmm. the mass migration leaves many lost. the old and young are pushed to the side

[Kanda444]

ugh... how horrible.

[deanmine]

aint it tho... fuck... now thats documenting reality

[pyromancer555]

How does a parent just let the kid fall behind though? I understand mass confusion and could be separated but at what point does a mom or a dad just go oh fuck it he'll find his way?

[deanmine]

there are hundreds of thousands of mummified humans lay after getting lost in that fuckin sand... god dididnt even give them fuckin dirt.. just sand

[Susan]

that's heart wrenching.

[Pyramid_Head]

The mother just leaves without her child?

[Photoplay]

Marwan was reunited with his mother

[JustifiableHomicide]

How did the child get lost in the first place? A Syrian refugee stampede?