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Ahmad al-Mustafa, a Syrian refugee, cannot provide milk for his daughter. Since the start of the economic crisis in Lebanon last year, Ahmad has found it difficult to provide for his family. The situation worsened with the outbreak of the coronavirus epidemic in Lebanon.
“No one wants to hire us now,” said Ahmad, 26, who lost his job at a restaurant a few months ago.
He added that he already owed hundreds of dollars. Now nobody gives him the rest.
“He is very concerned about the future. We have no idea what will happen next,” said Ahmad.
The current situation in Ahmad paints a bleak picture of the lives of some 5.6 million refugees in Lebanon, Jordan and Turkey. They mainly depend on daily income. But due to the ongoing closure situation in these countries due to coronavirus, it has become almost impossible for them to cover the cost of daily necessities.
Meanwhile, Lebanese citizens, facing an economic crisis in their own country, can no longer tolerate refugees. Due to the economic recession in Lebanon, the labor market has shrunk and the prices of basic products have soared.
Ahmed, who fled Syria to northern Lebanon in 2014, said: “Every time I go somewhere for work, they say they don’t hire Syrians. Basically, I’m home now. But the price of everything has gone up.”
You can’t even afford to buy diapers for your one-year-old daughter. You even depend on a donor in the neighborhood for your baby’s milk.
Meanwhile, Mireli Girard, representative of the UN agency for refugees in Lebanon, said many refugees were now more afraid of hunger than the virus. Parstude
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