MEET RIMA My husband Elias and I were young when we met. We were neighbors and we simply fell in love. After we got married in 1990, we were happy together. Quickly, we were blessed with our first daughter. Two […]
MEET SUZANNE Suzanne and her daughter Antonella My husband and I have four children: three sons and a daughter. Antonella – our daughter – is 14 years old now and suffers from hemiplegia. She suffered brain damaged at birth, when […]
MEET SHAMS Shams with 5 of her 6 children in their unfinished home We were displaced from the Aleppo countryside, where we had land which we were farming and living from. But our house was destroyed in the war, and […]
MEET EDWARD My name is Edward. I am 83 years old, and I live with my wife who is 75 years old. We are Lebanese and unfortunately, we did not have any children, and we have no one left in […]
MEET LEILA Leila and two of her sons in their tent We are from Homs in Syria. I have six children, five boys and a girl. I was pregnant with my younger son Abdallah when my husband disappeared. He was a […]
MEET FATOUMA Lana at our partner education center after the ceasefire in Lebanon My name is Fatouma and my husband and I have a son (15) and four daughters (13, 10, 7, and 3). We have been in Lebanon for […]
MEET SANA Before the war, we were living a simple but good life. My husband worked as a carpenter and we were blessed with two sons, who are now six and three years old. But the small village in the […]