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

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On other days, Fadwa’s employerdrops off a truck of dried redchili peppers at her home.Together, the wholefamily can process aton of chilis ina day. Fadwa and theother women sittogether and removethe stems.For sorting100 kg ofpeppers,Fadwa earns35 TRY(about $5).The peppers are aregional specialtyof the southwestof Turkey.
Fadwa isn’t sure how many more years she can go on working inagriculture… her back hurts at the end of each day.But she always remembersthe Arab proverb,“The hand thatworks is betterthan the handthat does notwork, and thehand thatdoes work isloved by Godand HisMessenger."
Page 1 and 2: بارك الله في اليد ا
Page 3 and 4: This research has been funded by th
Page 5 and 6: TEAM MEMBERSDr Ann-Christin Zuntz,
Page 7 and 8: Participants in this study were rec
Page 9 and 10: Arrows on the map represent displac
Page 11 and 12: Horizontal partnerships& valuing Sy
Page 13 and 14: Si eue hadw.T eae in,us preint, n
Page 15 and 16: Back in Syria, Nabil was anagricult
Page 17 and 18: ريحانAnn remembers the basil,
Page 19 and 20: Nabil tells us he has honeyfor when
Page 21 and 22: Leila’s father can nolonger work
Page 23 and 24: Leila and Muna currently workin gre
Page 25 and 26: When Leila and Muna arrive home at
Page 27 and 28: Adil and his familyfled their home
Page 29 and 30: Karim pays for the minibusthat take
Page 31 and 32: Adil has a good voice, so sometimes
Page 33 and 34: Despite his hard work, Adil worries
Page 35 and 36: Adil has adapted to his new life, b
Page 37 and 38: “We began to build a tent for eve
Page 39 and 40: To manage his workforce, Rafiqalso
Page 41 and 42: Rafiq feels frustrated by the lack
Page 43 and 44: Fadwa used to be a housewifein Syri
Page 45 and 46: In the winter months, Fadwa andher
Page 47: Fadwa’s husband sits nearbysortin
Page 51 and 52: Because of the pandemic, we cannot
Page 53 and 54: Greenhousestoilet“home”satellit
Page 55 and 56: Ibrahim cannot afford to give all o
Page 57 and 58: Ahmed and his family migrate regula
Page 59 and 60: During the citrusharvest,there aren
Page 61 and 62: * *Some of Ahmed’s co-workers hav
Page 63 and 64: Despite the hard work,Ahmed and the
Page 65 and 66: Due to the bombings, Suhair and her
Page 67 and 68: What pains Suhair most isthat she c
Page 69 and 70: “I am selling ourpossessions onea
Page 71 and 72: Finally, Zahid and Aaliyahfound a n
Page 73 and 74: For their work,Zahid and Aaliyahmak
Page 75 and 76: In Syria, Faisal studied agricultur
Page 77 and 78: The COVID-19 pandemic has also brou
Page 79 and 80: Mohammed and his wife and baby daug
Page 81 and 82: The stories of Faisal andMohammed i
Page 83 and 84: Hasan tried to find ajob as a teach
Page 85 and 86: Hasan works alongside Syrians and L
Page 87 and 88: Our team asked Hasan about the tran
Page 89 and 90: For our Syrian colleagues,this rese
Page 91: About the one healthfield networkTh

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