Making Home Away

So I sat them down and told them: the five of us are here, me, you and your father, wherever the five of us are, that place should be your heaven.
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Rima

Current 'home'
Jordan
a hand you can’t bite, you kiss!
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Hayat

Current 'home'
Jordan
The lack of electricity is hardest.
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Yara

Current 'home'
Jordan
Journey time
Six years
Our faces and hair look different here
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Marwa

Current 'home'
Jordan
Honestly, I can’t handle it.
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Farida

Current 'home'
Jordan
I had just delivered my baby girl. She was one month and ten days old...
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Samira

Current 'home'
Jordan
We trusted them and they didn’t give us any trouble, until one day, one of them wrote a report...
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Suha

Current 'home'
Jordan
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Lama

Current 'home'
Jordan
May God help you with your water!
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Khawla

Current 'home'
Jordan
My older son remembers...
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Jumana

Current 'home'
Jordan
I am going to leave all my friends.
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Sabiha

Current 'home'
Jordan
Journey time
Almost five years
My husband was bad (to) me. Now he is better...
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Warda

Current 'home'
Jordan
pink roses... remind me of Syria.
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Amira

Current 'home'
Jordan
Journey time
Four years
I felt that we were (going to be) staying here for a while, so I started decorating.
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Mai

Current 'home'
Jordan
...because I was mentally exhausted...
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Khadija

Current 'home'
Jordan
It is better to suffer at home...
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Nehal

Current 'home'
Jordan
Journey time
Four years
Here we are, four years later
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Maysoon

Current 'home'
Jordan
Hope is always there, of course.
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Mahdi

Current 'home'
Jordan
Journey time
Five and a half years
One plane was circling overhead...
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Rabia

Current 'home'
Jordan
These are the things that we do to keep us going
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Maha

Current 'home'
Jordan
... nothing was left for us there
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Zaynab

Current 'home'
Jordan
Nothing has a taste
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Layan

Current 'home'
Jordan
We came with the clothes that we were wearing
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Wafa

Current 'home'
Jordan
Journey time
Four years
We were hoping to go to Za’atari camp, but they assigned us here.
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Mahasen

Current 'home'
London, Ontario, Canada
Journey time
Seven years
we stayed for two years in Jordan and they were very difficult years...
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Abu Ali

Current 'home'
London, Ontario, Canada
Journey time
Seven years
All night, I sent them a reply of "Yes", I sent them 50,000 "Yes" messages.
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Tuba

Current 'home'
Jordan
To be able to live here one has to recreate a home as much as possible.
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Karam

Current 'home'
Athens, Greece
Life in here is very very hard.
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Munira

Current 'home'
Jordan
At least we have a roof above our heads now.
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