MEET NAJWA
My name is Najwa, I have 7 children. I am from Aleppo. We fled the suffering and the war and came to Lebanon since it’s a safe country for us and our children. My eldest was 4, the second 3, and the youngest was 1 and a half years old. I got three other children here. Now I have 3 boys and 4 girls.
We fled the war and came to Lebanon, since it’s a safe country for us and our children. One day before fleeing, we were completely out of food. The kids started nagging; they were very hungry. I had a small amount of flour, and I started making dough to make some bread. The plane saw us lighting a fire at sunset, and it started hovering above our house. They struck us 12 times, and bullet fragments filled the house. The kids and I started hiding behind the closet and under the table and the beds; the whole house was destroyed. We lost everything.
The next day, our neighbors were also hit by a plane. The situation was just disastrous. My children have been deprived of school, education, everything. They have been heavily traumatized by the things that they went through, especially from seeing dead bodies in the street. It was God in His will who saved us from all this. We didn’t know where the raids were coming from, it was all around us, and we didn’t know where to go and where to hide.