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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Fatima

Current 'home'
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Journey time
One year
...those utensils feel like home to me.
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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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Khawla

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

Current 'home'
Jordan
It is a bit better now but it is still bad
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Assad

Current 'home'
Jordan
The fighters used to come to the house and ask the children their names.
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Amira

Current 'home'
Coventry, UK
Journey time
Seven years
It’s hard to change house.
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Jamila

Current 'home'
Coventry, UK
I said to my children, maybe we lost the way now...
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Amira's Departure

Current 'home'
Coventry, UK
Every day I told them yes, no.
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Azida

Current 'home'
Athens, Greece
The incident that made me decide to leave Syria...
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Eliana

Current 'home'
Jordan
...it will not be easy for them to go back...
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Karam

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