Dispatches

After many years of conflict and war in Northeast Syria, agricultural livelihoods have almost completely disappeared and local products have vanished from the shelves. Jomaa has been working on his family’s smallholder farm in Syria since childhood. But without the resources and funds to keep the farm running, he has been unable to support his family.

This article was written by Alaa, a Syrian refugee who lives at Za’atari refugee camp in Jordan where she also works at the Innovation Lab. Alaa is studying journalism at university. Read in Arabic below. Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic and the imposition of lockdowns around the world, people are using the internet and social networking sites more than before.