What It's Like to Cook in a Syrian Refugee Camp

posted on: May 1, 2015

“In my dreams, we are still living in our house and village,” says Refika, a 50-year-old Syrian woman living in a refugee camp in Kahramanmaras, Turkey. “We had everything back home. My mom was old and she died when I was here—I couldn’t see her. My sisters, brothers, and my dad are still there. I cry every day for them.”

A mother of three, Refika escaped her village of Lazkiye three years ago as the civil war in Syria escalated to a violently untenable level. “We fled to other villages to find safety, but then eventually we had to come to Turkey. My husband took my youngest son and myself to the border and stayed behind with our two other sons,” she says. “We walked for hours. My dress was covered with dust, and my slippers were torn apart. I couldn’t stop crying while we were walking.”

Source: munchies.vice.com