Wednesday, July 09, 2014

Syria’s war widows fight for survival


The 36-year-old Syrian who fled a brutal war that ripped through her village of Qusayr, destroying her home and killing her husband, is now facing a lone fight for survival with her two children in one of the poorest villages in Lebanon.

She is one of more than 145,000 Syrian refugee women who, according to UN figures, are the sole breadwinners for their families, struggling to provide food and shelter for their children and often facing harassment, humiliation and isolation .... http://www.aljazeera.com