Syria: “My youngest son is as old as the war”
On the anniversary of the Syrian War, Mariam remembers the horrors she lived through in the last 8 years.
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On the anniversary of the Syrian War, Mariam remembers the horrors she lived through in the last 8 years.
Rihab lives in Zarqa, Jordan, along with her husband and five children. She became a member of CARE’s Zarqa Women’s Leadership Council when it first began in 2016.
Emiline, 39, is a married Syrian mother of three. When she fled from Syria to Jordan in 2012 with her husband and children, she found herself trapped inside four walls. She was too afraid to leave her home, and wouldn’t let her children leave either…
Almaz is one of the 1 million people who were displaced during the most recent ethnic conflict in Gedeo and West Guji zones in southern Ethiopia.
More than 330,000 survivors lost their homes after the Indonesia earthquake and were forced to live in makeshift tents
64 year old hasna single-handedly supports her family of 6. On 28 September their home was destroyed by the Indonesia earthquake
9 month pregnant Citra describes the situation as the Indonesia earthquake hit in September 2018
Amreh is one of the 1 million people who were displaced during the most recent ethnic conflict in Gedeo and West Guji zones in southern Ethiopia
She holds her gaze when she looks at me. Her eyes cannot lie. She is a survivor, still fighting to overcome the trauma. We meet in a refugee camp in Uganda. She tells me the world must know what she has been through. On her lap sits her daughter. A…
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