Their parents didn’t leave home, they fled it. War pushed them out of Cambodia. Bombs fell for years, long after the world had stopped paying attention. Mines littered farmlands that once fed families. Borders shifted, and trust fractured. Those who reached Europe carried nothing but plastic bags, refugee paperwork, and children they prayed would one day feel safe. The children did not inherit the war, but they inherited what the war taught: keep your head down, don’t ask for more, and above ...

Their parents didn’t leave home, they fled it. War pushed them out of Cambodia. Bombs fell for years, long after the world had stopped paying attention. Mines littered farmlands that once fed families. Borders shifted, and trust fractured. Those who reached Europe carried nothing but plastic bags, refugee paperwork, and children they prayed would one day feel safe. The children did not inherit the war, but they inherited what the war taught: keep your head down, don’t ask for more, and above ...