PEREIRA: Thousands of children have lost one or both parents during the fighting that has raged for almost four years in Syria. Our Arwa Damon takes us to an orphanage that's now home to some of them.</s>ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With new backpacks almost as big as they are, the children file into the orphanage after school. Their faces and behavior betray few of the horrors they have witnessed or their suffering. Their fathers are dead, lost to illness or war in Syria. Their mothers decided to send them here.</s>UNIDENTIFIED GIRL: What's your name?</s>DAMON (on camera): My name is Arwa. What's your name?</s>UNIDENTIFIED GIRL: My name is</s>DAMON: The orphanage opened recently, offering a safe place. Toys replace those they left behind in Syria. Clean water to wash with and regular hot, healthy meals. The orphanage was established by Maram Foundation named after another little girl paralyzed by shrapnel.</s>YAKZAN SHISHALDY, CO-FOUNDER, MARAM FOUNDATION: We want to get children away from all that's happening inside Syria and give them the right to have a normal life away from the war because of the regime.</s>DAMON: And the impact is already being seen. The head of the orphanage says the little girl is often lost in the memories of her father.</s>DAMON: "I would see him in my dreams," she remembers. "I would see him giving someone something." She seems less haunted by his death, dreaming instead of going home to Syria and teaching Arab. Arwa Damon, CNN, Turkey.</s>PEREIRA: Those little faces. For ways to help, please visit CNN.com/impact. That's it for us. Stay warm out there. Ashleigh Banfield is next.
Children Become Orphans in Syria