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The Tale of the Fortune Hunters: Powerful Spoken Word about the Syrian Refugee Crisis

A message of hope, a message that looks beyond the numbers and sees the human looking for hope. 

Filmed by Maarten Smeenk and Directed by David Bonsink

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