“Girls my age should be wearing school uniforms, not wedding dresses”
Wishes of Syrian refugees in Jordan and Lebanon
“The wishlist” by Johanna Mitscherlich, Regional Emergency Communications Officer, CARE International When I was a child I used to write a wishlist before Christmas. A few days before Christmas Eve I would put it on the table of our terrace and shout “Santa Claus, Santa Claus”, wildly flapping my arms up and down like a […]
Indecent proposal: Syrian women exploited
By Noura Shahed, Monitoring and Evaluation Officer, CARE Jordan ‘Are you Syrian? Will you marry me?’ These are just some of the questions that 34-year-old Mufeeda has been hearing since her husband went missing in Syria. Mufeeda, her husband Awad and their four children fled to Jordan in August 2012 after already having left their […]
‘I was very afraid that a bullet would hit me’
Eleven-year-old Rafa and her family fled Homs, Syria, when bullets were coming through the walls of their home. Now they get cash assistance from CARE to help pay for rent and food in the Jordanian capital of Amman. ‘We were very afraid when we left our home,’ Rafa begins. ‘We had to leave in a […]