Reyhanli, Turkey – Celine Abu al-Zumar is nearly four years old, and as she was about to hear for the first time in her life, her mother was near tears.
“In less than three months, the dream became a reality,” Fatima al-Essa exclaimed.
Celine was finally approved for cochlear implant surgery like her brother Aslan had been in April.
Fatima, a 26-year-old Syrian living in Idlib, Syria, recalled her sadness that her children Celine and Aslan, now five and a half, were born with a hearing…