Montevideo, Uruguay (CNN) -- The tiny faces pressed against the airport window stare in wonder at the aircraft waiting for them at the end of the sky bridge: this is the plane that will take them to a new life. Syrian refugee Nassar and his family - he has five sons and five daughters, aged from three to 22 -- fled their home in Idlib as the country's bloody civil war took hold. Now, after almost three years of fear and uncertainty, they are on the move again, flying more than 12,000km from their temporary base in Lebanon to a more permanent home on the other side of the world.
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Five Syrian refugee families have been flown to Uruguay to begin a new life there
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The group are the first of up to 120 Syrians who will be resettled in the South American country
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Father-of-ten Nassar told CNN he was moving for the sake of his children's education
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"They deserve our help and they deserve the opportunity," said Uruguay's Human Rights Secretary
Two of their fellow passengers, @placeholder, greet the children with hugs and kisses after realizing who they are.