Médecins Sans Frontières - TESTIMONY: Fawzia

Unique Identifier Code / URN MSF235242

Date taken / Date Recorded 20/05/2018 12:00 AM

Country Syria

Commissioning section MSF-FRANCE

Photographer / videographer / producer Mohammed Homidan

Copyright MSF

Usage Rights (MSF) MSF Publications, Social Media

Formal Consent Copy available no

Editor's rating ★★★★★ (C)

Video format h264 (Main) (avc1 / 0x31637661)

Duration 1m56s

Maximum Size 1920px × 1080px 193.53 MB

Additional Information / Shotlist FAWZIA (in Arabic)
We’ve been displaced for four months. There are 15 of us.
We came on foot. We ran barefoot all night,
dragging our children through the valley until sunrise.
There was bombing all night until we arrived.
We didn’t have any food or water.
We had to run away to save our children.
No car, nothing. We didn’t dare go by car.
We weaved our way through the valley with bombs falling around us.
I have twelve children.
My son and his wife have a child,
and my daughter has a child too.
All we have is this tent.
We can hardly breathe inside.
One night, I had to come outside for two hours just to breathe. I felt like I was like suffocating.
I can barely breathe when we close the tent, there are 14 of us inside.
This is my kitchen.
I heated up this water and washed five children with it.
Two bowls of water for each child. That’s all.
Five children washed with just this can of water.
And without shampoo, nothing.
What can I say?
Look! We couldn’t sleep last night because of the mosquitos.
We dragged the mattresses over there to try to sleep but it didn’t help.
We spent the whole night scratching
The mosquitos just kept biting.
We don’t even have water to wash our clothes when it’s hot.
Things can’t get any worse.
We have nothing. No food, no water, no bread, no tents...
My grandson is suffering from malnutrition.
I make one can of milk last for 15 days by adding water.
We have no money to buy anything and our living conditions are extremely bad.

TESTIMONY: Fawzia - IDP in Idlib, Syria (INT)

TESTIMONY: Fawzia - IDP in Idlib, Syria (INT)