Alessio Romenzi

Lebanon, Bekaa Valley. Ghad Mira, 36, is from Aleppo. “The day when that bomb hit our house I was so terrified that I could not move. I just said to myself – you have to think only for the children’ sake, take as many things as possible for them and take them away from this hell. Being barely able to think about what was going on and staring at my trembling hands, I randomly filled a suitcase. I did not bring anything for me and my husband. In that state I arrived at the Lebanese border with the clothes I was wearing and that suitcase. It is still with us. Now that we have lost everything it is the most important thing” says Ghad Mira, 36, from Aleppo.
Along with her husband Mahmoud and their three children, Abdelaziz (11), Ayham (9) and Judy (6), Ghad was forced to flee Syria seven months ago when a bomb hit part of their house in Aleppo. Everything they had was destroyed during the shelling. She arrived to the Lebanese border just with the clothes she was wearing that day and a bag with clothes and basic necessities for her children. Since their arrival in Lebanon they have been living as refugees in a few square meters room in the skeleton of a building site on the outskirts of Zahle. (Lebanon. Bekaa Valley).
Alessio Romenzi