Drawings of Syria: Child refugees colour horrors of war

The Syrian refugees who have settledin Canada over the last year left a brutal civil war behind them.

With the help ofOptionsCommunity Services Society, which works with families to help them get settled, we collected images drawn bysome of the children whose families are now building new lives in Surrey, B.C.

Each child drew one picture based on their memories from Syriaand one picture of their new livesin BritishColumbia.

The picture above was drawn by Zainab, 11, from Idlib, Syria, and the next one is heryounger brother Mahmoud's version of Canada.

Emran, 10, from Damascus

Maan, 11, fromDaraa

Mohammed, 10, from Damascus

Mohamed, 6, fromDaraa

Mayas, 6, from Damascus

Ritaj, 9, from Daraa

Saja, 7, from Daraa