Reference :
V-P-SY-E-00477
Date :
18/11/2015
Caption :
Aleppo, Tariq al-Bab district. A woman sits at the doorstep of her home as her son holds a piece of plastic to be burned as fuel in the stove.
Confidentiality level :
public
Publication restrictions :
publication without restrictions
Description :
This woman, a widow and a lonely mother, is desperate and worried about the condition of her family in the upcoming winter. Mother of 5 children, she had to leave her house, in the district of Jabal Badro, over a year ago, after her father, her husband and her daughter died, and her house got destroyed in an attack on the neighborhood.
She is now taking shelter with her 5 children in a house in the Tariq al-Bab district. She depends on the very few donations she receives from her poor neighbours in order to feed her children. She said that she struggled to survive last winter and that she would rather that she and her children die this year to avoid being in the same situation again.
Just like other residents of the area, her ten years old boy, the oldest of his brothers, has to collect rubbish to burn as fuel for cooking and heating. Two of his brothers are mentally disabled, and he has to support his mother to make a living.
Original material :
digital
Resolution :
4272x2848
Orientation :
landscape
Colour/B&W :
colour
