Syria: Thousands of women give survival battle
Often, women from Syria have not only lost their homeland and their spouse. Without male protection are often exposed to violence and arbitrariness.
Nora tightly holding her son in her arms and remembers the last time she saw her husband. 22 year old, managed to escape from a Palestinian refugee camp in Tzarmouk, south of Damascus.
The Tzarmouk has meanwhile completely destroyed. Her husband eventually left, he says Nora talking to Deutsche Welle. "I know he took" he says, and that means supporters of Assad regime.
Nora's husband disappeared on June 24, 2013, a month before the Syrian army started the blockade in Tzarmouk. The security forces have isolated thousands of civilians and famine spread in the city.
Nora went from one refugee camp to another for two years. Now he lives in livanopalaistiniako Shatila camp south of Beirut and is one that should ensure the survival of the family.
According to the High Commissioner for Refugees UN, one in four women from Syria remains alone after the disappearance or the death of her husband.
Depression and hunger
H Randa Haddad works for the NGO «Najdeh» and tries to help women in the Palestinian camp in Lebanon. And it's strange, but where women actually seeking help and refuge, and there receive more sexual harassment.
"Women without men, often for the first time in their lives are forced to work," says social worker. Often when the employer discovered that the woman has no husband, she tries to molest or to blackmail.
Nora is now working in a creamery and declares how he feels scared of the menacing eyes of some single men. If you fell victim of abuse very likely that the Lebanese authorities will not be able to offer some help.
Much of women refugees from Syria has no legal papers. The requirements for granting a visa are very strict and very difficult to meet.
The result of all these difficulties that women face depression problems, living with constant fears and some even forced to starve to be able to feed their children.
There are also possible
Often the solutions are sought so hard. These women forcing their daughters to marry early. A practice that is not unknown in these societies and especially in poorer economic strata.
Sometimes however there is another side to the coin. For example 43chroni Umm Nada, which went with the three daughters of the camp after the disappearance of the great son. He rejected to date 15 marriage proposals for greater daughter.
"No, not going to give," he says. I care now for us. All is well as long as we all live together, "says Umm Nada. He works as a cleaner in a non-governmental organization. But not all women so strong. Some resort to prostitution as a direct and relatively easy solution.
Life for women from Syria in the camps is difficult and hard. They not only lost their homeland but often their husbands, their most important support.
Often, women from Syria have not only lost their homeland and their spouse. Without male protection are often exposed to violence and arbitrariness.
Nora tightly holding her son in her arms and remembers the last time she saw her husband. 22 year old, managed to escape from a Palestinian refugee camp in Tzarmouk, south of Damascus.
The Tzarmouk has meanwhile completely destroyed. Her husband eventually left, he says Nora talking to Deutsche Welle. "I know he took" he says, and that means supporters of Assad regime.
Nora's husband disappeared on June 24, 2013, a month before the Syrian army started the blockade in Tzarmouk. The security forces have isolated thousands of civilians and famine spread in the city.
Nora went from one refugee camp to another for two years. Now he lives in livanopalaistiniako Shatila camp south of Beirut and is one that should ensure the survival of the family.
According to the High Commissioner for Refugees UN, one in four women from Syria remains alone after the disappearance or the death of her husband.
Depression and hunger
H Randa Haddad works for the NGO «Najdeh» and tries to help women in the Palestinian camp in Lebanon. And it's strange, but where women actually seeking help and refuge, and there receive more sexual harassment.
"Women without men, often for the first time in their lives are forced to work," says social worker. Often when the employer discovered that the woman has no husband, she tries to molest or to blackmail.
Nora is now working in a creamery and declares how he feels scared of the menacing eyes of some single men. If you fell victim of abuse very likely that the Lebanese authorities will not be able to offer some help.
Much of women refugees from Syria has no legal papers. The requirements for granting a visa are very strict and very difficult to meet.
The result of all these difficulties that women face depression problems, living with constant fears and some even forced to starve to be able to feed their children.
There are also possible
Often the solutions are sought so hard. These women forcing their daughters to marry early. A practice that is not unknown in these societies and especially in poorer economic strata.
Sometimes however there is another side to the coin. For example 43chroni Umm Nada, which went with the three daughters of the camp after the disappearance of the great son. He rejected to date 15 marriage proposals for greater daughter.
"No, not going to give," he says. I care now for us. All is well as long as we all live together, "says Umm Nada. He works as a cleaner in a non-governmental organization. But not all women so strong. Some resort to prostitution as a direct and relatively easy solution.
Life for women from Syria in the camps is difficult and hard. They not only lost their homeland but often their husbands, their most important support.
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