Refugees at the settlement camp in Bekaa Valley in Lebanon remember that life in Syria before the war and bombings was good. “We worked on the land and in the fields. We had proper homes. It was heaven,” reminisces 20-year-old Miriam.
All was shattered when Miriam’s hometown, Arakka, was devastated in the Syrian conflict. They had to flee and Miriam now lives at one of the tented settlements with her two young sons.
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