“From Now On I Will Not Let Anything Get Between Me And Education”

“I was very sad, for many years, for having to stop going to school.” says Lorine, 16 years, when describing the four years she spent out of school in Idlib because of the constant violence, adding, “But a persistent feeling inside kept telling me that I would be back to school one day.”

When fighting reached a critical point in Idlib three years ago, Lorine’s family was forced to flee to Damascus with nothing but the clothes on their backs. To shore up his family and pay for the costly accommodation, Lorine’s father who used to be a well-established merchant back in Idlib, started to sell cotton candies on the streets in the new neighbourhood………………