CNN producer Danielle Dellorto spent a week at a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan . Year - old Abdel 's story dramatizes the fear , worry , alienation that refugees experience . I will never forget the first time I looked into his eyes . Abdel leaves behind comforts of home ; in a 10-by-10 room , he 's ` ` the front of the house '' He 's painfully thin ; he says his last meal , just rice , was a day ago .
CNN producer Danielle Dellorto spent a week at a Syrian refugee camp in Jordan . Year - old Abdel 's story dramatizes the fear , worry , alienation that refugees experience . Abdel leaves behind comforts of home ; in a 10-by-10 room , he 's ` ` the front of the house '' He 's painfully thin ; he says his last meal , just rice , was a day ago .