Lebanese students abroad fall prey to financial crisis at home

Lebanese medicine student Lara Mustafa is pictured at her dorm in this handout in Tver, Russia November 27, 2020. Picture taken November 27, 2020. Dinusha Ravushan/Handout via REUTERS

BEIRUT (Reuters) - Lebanese medical student Lara Mustafa faces eviction from Russia and the end of her dream of becoming a doctor if her parents, hit by Lebanon's worst financial crisis in decades, cannot send her money to pay for rent and expenses.

Another medical student, Wassim Hachem, 24, had to drop out from his fourth year of university in Russia to return to Lebanon and work as a delivery driver after his father, who lost his job, was no longer able to support him.