I continue to believe in the importance of my illustrated story The Lost Parents about siblings Irina and Abdul, who find themselves caught in a war. It took me years to create and was eventually released as a self-published book after being rejected by many publishing houses. It’s a timeless, realistic fable about disappeared parents and abducted children in wars and conflict zones. From anger to idea, to book, to animated short. Projects only thrive when set free. Never leave them on the shelf.

What world leaders-and all of us-are doing is not enough. It never will be.

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