The book Fatma, written by Conceição Dinis Tomé, sheds light on a very real and pressing issue. The best way to introduce it is by sharing a little story.
During a workshop I held for children in Braga—home to one of Portugal’s refugee shelters—a young boy made a striking observation. He found it unsettling that fires could destroy homes and that hundreds of people had to travel in tiny boats. "Everything in this book looks strange!" he concluded.

I couldn’t agree more. Sadly, every word of it is true, and that is precisely why this book needs to exist. The children in the workshop all came to the same conclusion: the solution to these hardships lies in friendship and love.