Children, women in Idlib pick through garbage for making their livelihood
Children and women living in the Idlib city of NE Syria build their lives amid trashes and conflicts. “We spend our lives by picking up wastes left by the war. We know that the garbage wall built between us and the world will never be removed,” said the children who never go to school due to civil war, have no future.
SUHÊR EL-IDLIBÎ
Idlib- Wars affect first children and women. Children and women living in refugees camps in Idlib looking for food and something valuable in the garbage to make a livelihood shows us how wars affect them. The children living in the refugee camps of Idlib never go to school and they pick through garbage for food or something useable to make their livelihood. 12-year-old M. Omar is one of these children. He collects garbage to support his family. “I’m not ashamed to collect garbage. There is no shame in that. I wish I could go to school but now I want to support my siblings to go to school.”
He has no dream for himself
The only dream of M. Omar is to support his family, “I have no dream for myself, and I just want to earn a living for my family and to not be killed by a landmine explosion.”
10-year-old Hayan Al Mai lives with her family in one of the refugee camps in Idlib. She goes to look for food or something valuable to sell. “Our camp is far away from the garbage. I have to get up early to go there. I collect plastic and metal items in the garbage to sell them. I never go to school. I know I will never go to school. I have to collect waste to survive.”
Sebria El Eli looks for food and something valuable along with her children in order to earn a living. Rawan El Yousef is a physician volunteer working for the camps in Idlib. She noted that many women and children pick through garbage and this causes diseases in the camps.