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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Hayat

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

Current 'home'
Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Journey time
Four years
There is nothing worse than injustice.
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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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Suha

Current 'home'
Jordan
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Lama

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

Current 'home'
London, Ontario, Canada
The problem is that I forget a lot these days
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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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Hallat

Current 'home'
London, Ontario, Canada
Journey time
Seven years
the priority was for Lebanese children...
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Hanan's husband

Current 'home'
London, Ontario, Canada
Journey time
Seven years
But here in Canada, it is different...
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Jamila

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

Current 'home'
Coventry, UK
They asked me “Where are your documents?”
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Yara

Current 'home'
Athens, Greece
I want one thing, that God protects my family.
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Atiq

Current 'home'
Istanbul, Turkey
Journey time
1 year
... having legal status brings you a different life ...
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Munira

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