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Umm Raghad's children don't have proper clothes or a furnace at home to stay warm during Syria's bitter winter, so they burn scraps of garbage to keep the biting cold at bay.
A woman narrates the ordeal of surviving the brutal winter in Syria. She says she cannot afford clothes to keep her children warm.
Winter spells tragedy for northwest Syria, home to over 3mn people, nearly half of whom have been displaced by a decade-long war
Umm Raghad’s children do not have proper clothes or a furnace at home to stay warm during Syria’s bitter winter so they burn scraps of garbage to keep the biting cold at bay. “Every morning, I wake up and find that my children aren’t near me,” Umm Raghad told Agence France-Presse from a displacement camp in northwestern Idlib Governorate. “They go out early to collect scraps of plastic from the streets, such as bags and shoe soles,” the mother of three said, her face half-covered by a thick black scarf. Winter usually spells tragedy for northwestern Syria, home to more than 3
KAFR AROUK , Syria, — Umm Raghad’s children don’t have proper clothes or a furnace at home to stay warm during Syria’s bitter winter so they burn scraps of garbage to keep the biting cold at bay.“Every morning I wake up and find that my children aren’t near me,” Umm Raghad told AFP from a displacement camp in the north-western province of Idlib.“They go out early to collect