Dina (not her real name), 20, was born with a hearing and communication impairment. She was only twelve when the war started and, like many other children in Syria, she had to drop out of school. She got married and gave birth to a baby girl two years ago. Shortly after her daughter was born, […]
Duaa (not her real name), 26, suffered from a disease called cataract when she was a child. After years of cloudy vision, she completely lost her vision when she was 14 years old. With her family’s support and her strong will, she was admitted to a school for visually impaired students. “When God puts us […]
Bilal (not his real name), 30, has had a visual impairment since childhood, despite this, he graduated from high school and started studying at university. When the conflict in Syria started, he and his family had to flee their hometown. “Fleeing was very difficult. We had to leave everything behind, fleeing from one place to […]
Wearing a velvet dress and a red keffiyeh, Mariam (name changed) sits next to the only cupboard in the small room in which she lives with her four children. She remembers the horrors she lived through since the war in Syria started eight years ago. “Two months before the war started, my husband had a […]
Said (not his real name) narrowly survived a missile attack in Syria, he was severely injured and his right leg had to be amputated. “It was the hardest time of my life. I felt like I am not capable of doing anything in my life and I was completely dependent on other people,” says the […]
Salma (not her real name), 41, is a mother of six living in Syria. During the war, the family fled their home and settled in another part of Syria, where they had no shelter or work. “We had to borrow money from others to meet our family’s needs. I remember nights where we had […]
Reem* is not your typical laptop repairs and servicing technician in Syria. The 22-year-old Syrian was the only woman in her class to finish a vocational training course on computer maintenance, provided by the Syria Resilience Consortium. “The idea started after I finished my baccalaureate and enrolled at an Institute of Computer Studies, specializing […]
Alia (not her real name), 42, and her family had to walk for days when they fled their home in Syria. Multiple airstrikes made their hometown unsafe, so the family of nine took their animals and the few things they could carry, leaving everything else behind. “We were leading a decent life, everything was […]
It is 8 o’clock in the morning, and Miriam (not her real name), 23, is getting ready to welcome students into the kindergarten that she set up in her home. The kindergarten institute graduate had always hoped to be a teacher, but that was put on hold when the war in Syria erupted. Her […]
