"Sajad Al-Faraji, 16,  sits at a refugee housing center in a former abandoned seniors hospital in Heitzing, a suburb of Vienna, Austria on September 7, 2017. By late November 2015, refugee and migrant flows into Europe remained at an unprecedented high. Since the beginning of the year, over 870,000 refugees and migrants have crossed the Mediterranean Sea to Europe. Many of them are escaping conflict and insecurity in their home countries of Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan and the Syrian Arab Republic. More than one in five is a child.  Sajad Al-Faraji, 16, who fled conflict in Basra, Iraq with his brother, Zein Alabdien Al-Faraji, 14, his sister, Houda Al-Malik 26, and his mother Mona Al-Hammoudi, 56, lost the use of his legs during an operation on his lower back when he was one month old in Iraq. His family arrived in Vienna in late 2015 after a harrowing trip through the Balkans.  A year after arriving in Austria, Sajad was accepted into a school.  In September 2017, the family are still waiting for an interview from the authorities to begin their asylum process in Austria. Sajad is deeply frustrated, and as an escape, he spends between two and three hours a day playing games on his phone. ""I didn't know about Europe, but now I've met so many people, and seen many things, and I'm one step closer to my dreams. My dream now is to finish school and learn very good German. I want to be with the Austrian people, I want to work as a chef, I want to travel."" Sajad said, pausing, ""I want to have a life like others."" Please see the series noted below for photo documentation of Sajad over the two-year period: 2015 - https://weshare.unicef.org/Folder/2AMZIF3TGC6  2016 - https://weshare.unicef.org/Folder/2AMZIFIPAIS1  2017 - https://weshare.unicef.org/Folder/2AMZIFIPAB32"
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