However, despite having reached safety in Lebanon, Jomaa and his family are still suffering.
Zaid, who is now 16, broke her thighbone during the ordeal and had to have steel bars fitted to mend her leg. The bars now need removing but they cannot afford it and she is in constant pain. Sham*, Jomaa’s 11-year-old daughter, is completely deaf after an explosion went off next to her. His children no longer go to school as they cannot afford it, and two of his grandchildren are sick with fever, vomiting and chest pain.
Concern is working to make Jomaa’s and his family’s lives as comfortable as possible whilst they are taking refuge in an unoccupied, unfinished building in Lebanon. Concern refurbished the building to make it more comfortable, installing doors, windows, bathroom facilities and a water tank. While Concern can help provide a roof over their heads, we can also begin to support them to ease the emotional trauma Jomaa and his family are still suffering because of the war.
Pregnant mum of four Dibeh* lives in a garage in Northern Lebanon, close to the Syrian border. She has lived here with her husband and children for a year, but is about to move again. Why? Because even away from the horrors of the conflict in Syria, their lives are still at risk.
“I was very comfortable in Syria”, Dibeh* tells us. That was, until her house was bombed and her one-year-old daughter was seriously injured. Knowing how dangerous it was, Dibeh had to make the difficult decision of whether or not to move her, but they could not stay there in direct danger.
Injured, scared and desperate, the family moved the little girl and they fled to Lebanon, longing for safety.
However, after ten days in hospital her daughter sadly died from her injuries.