Story highlights Last year five Syrian families, 42 people in total, were welcomed in Uruguay as refugees

They tell a CNN team their prospects haven't panned out, and government aid ends in a year

Uruguayan human rights minister says government is doing everything it can to help

Montevideo, Uruguay (CNN) The youngest ones already have learned conversational Spanish with a local accent. They have also made some friends in school.

When a CNN team arrives, a girl called Khitam grabs the microphone from the reporter and pretends to do an interview in Spanish with one of the boys.

"How are you doing in school?" Khitam asks. "Good" is the answer. They also seem to be adjusting well to the local culture. One of the teenage girls says she no longer wears the head covering know as hijab and is dating a local boy.

But the parents of these Syrian children are not happy. Last year five Syrian families, 42 people in total, were welcomed in Uruguay as refugees. They were fleeing from war and violence in their native country. Two births in the past 12 months have increased their number to 44.

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