A 16-year-old Turkish-American girl named Sinem Oğuz has made the stories of young Syrian refugees living along the Turkish-Syrian border come to life with her "On the Border: Syrian Women and Children" photo exhibition.

Sinem, who is a high school student from New Jersey decided to put her hobby of taking photos into good use and raised awareness for a worthy cause: To showcase the reality of being a Syrian refugee who has been on-the-run from a brutal civil war.

In Spring Break, 2015 she and her dad went to visit refugee camps along the border in the south set up by the Prime Ministry Disaster and Emergency Management Agency (AFAD). Thanks to the Turkish Heritage Foundation they gained access to the facilities and she started her praiseworthy project.

"Im always on alert about the news that is happening in Turkey. Especially in the past few years, I have been hearing a lot about the Syrian conflict," she said Thursday in an interview on Good Morning Washington.

It was overwhelming to see these teenagers and children go through all of this… This experience showed me that we take many things -such simple things- for granted," she said adding that so many people had such moving stories and it was very emotional for her.

Her photo exhibition will be held in Andrew W. Mellon Auditorium in Northwest, Washington D.C. at 6:30 p.m. March 30.

President Erdoğan will also attend the exhibition.

Sinem has also raised over $5,000 in aid to help children forced to flee their countries.