"May God Bless the Hand that Works": Stories from Displaced Syrian Farmworkers during Covid-19

“We began to build a tent for every family seeking refuge in the
camp and helped them with our available means. UNHCR also
offered some help and refugees in the camp supported each other.
Some offered money, a pillow, sheets...”
“We lived there with the hope that the situation would stabilise
in Syria and we could return home. But as you saw, the war
evolved.”
The camp now
numbers
408 people.
“As the shaweesh in the camp, I was tasked by the Lebanese
authorities with monitoring who enters and leaves the camp
and with addressing any dispute.”
“Our relationship is good,
we come from the same
home country.
The female worker is
like my sister,
and the male
worker is like
my brother.”