Updates On The Children

In my last entry, I wrote about the Swedish children who fell out a window in their school, in my community, Järfälla, in Sweden. I am ever-so-slightly acquainted to these kids, I don't know them personally but it still feels so "close", when something like this happens to such young kids and so nearby. But for all people with children - Or just a nurturing mind, like me - It can feel almost like it's your own kid even if it happens miles away.

Filip Pieczka, 7 years old

Filip is at hospital being treated for a skull injury. He had a small bleeding in his brain, but he's gonna be fine. The boy doesn't remember anything of his accident at the moment. He longs home to his Playstation and says he wants to change schools and only study on the ground floor in the future.

Samira Hassan, 6 years old

Samira got the worst injuries of all three children. She's had surgery on several parts of her body, such as her hips, head and liver. She still has more treatment to go through, but she's gonna live. Last news I read about her is that she is still anesthetized, waiting for more surgery, but that she's shown signs of recovery by moving her legs a little.

Ayub Aden, 5 years old

This miracle boy was lucky enough to escape without any injury! He's still under observation in the hospital, but all seems well with him and he longs back to school, in spite of what happened.

Three Children Injured After Falling Out Window

There's been an accident here in Sweden, in the community I live, at a school in walking distance from the pre-school where I work. Monday, the 24th, as class was over at Aspnässkolan in Järfälla, three children, aged five, six and seven sat leaning against a window with a pillow behind. The windows suddenly sprung open and before anyone could intervene, they fell eight meters (twenty-six feet) and hit the hard asphalt ground.

Ardo Nur Ahmed, 35 was walking to school to get her six year old daughter, Samira, home. Their family fled to Sweden from Somalia earlier this year and all summer, Samira had been excited about starting school. Thursday, the 20th was her first day. When Ardo arrived at school Monday, to get her daughter, Samira wasn't waiting at the usual place. There was a gathering of people nearby, so Ardo rushed there and saw her daughter and two boys laying on the ground. The boys were screaming and crying but Samira appeared completely lifeless.

"I rushed up to her, feeling her heart and her pulse. She was gone. No sensation, no reaction, nothing. Can you understand? I thought she was dead." Samira's mother Ardo said, crying, to Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet. "This just shouldn't be able to happen. Not at a school. Not in Sweden."

Samira is now treated for severe, but not life-threatening injuries at a hospital and the boys are treated for less severe injuries. As I live nearby and am very fond of children, I of course feel worried for these children and I hope that everything turns out fine. The families of the children must be going through such a nightmare, at the same time as they are happy the children are alive.

Samira, six years old is badly injured after falling out a window.