Chloe Hadjimatheou
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3,299 appearances
16 recordings
2 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 27 Aug
Chloe Hadjimatheou’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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One of those fellow journalists at the BBC World Service's Eye Investigations Unit managed to speak to this orphanage worker.
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And this is the first time this interview's been broadcast.
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We've changed her name to Maya and we've had an Arabic-speaking actress read her words.
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Maya was abandoned as a baby and adopted by an elderly couple who both died when she was 12, so she was returned to the orphanage where she started.
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When she turned 18, she decided to stay on living at the institution, caring for the children there while she was getting a degree.
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After the war began, she remembered that same influx of children we'd been told about in the orphanage where she worked too.
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But she says she quickly figured out what was going on.
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At some point, Maya finished studying law and she began writing a legal paper based on her experiences at the orphanage.
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She was quite excited about it.
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And so one day during a meeting at the orphanage, she shared her plans with Asmaa.
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Her thinking was that they could try and reunite some of the children in the orphanage with their parents.
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Maybe publish their photos in newspapers and share their details so they could eventually be found if any family members were looking for them.
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And she was particularly interested in the so-called crisis children.
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When I heard this, it seemed quite shocking to me.
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The idea that the children of rebel or opposition groups might be taken by the state and eventually raised to be soldiers to fight their own parents.
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This was still on Maya's mind the next day when she went into work.
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And she recounted the conversation she'd had with Asma to a colleague.
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Maya had believed in asthma.
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She'd been encouraged by her.
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But then, she says, she felt asthma was slowly freezing her out, later preventing her from getting a government job as a lawyer.
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