Photo: Kete Shabani/IRC
For six months, 59-year-old Lana and her extended family moved from village to village to escape the bombings and gunfire in Syria. Read Lana's story and learn how the IRC is helping her family.
For six months, 59-year-old Lana (not her real name) and her extended family moved from village to village to escape the bombings and gunfire in Syria. Lana decided it was time to leave Syria entirely on the morning her grandchildren awoke to discover a spray of bullet holes across the wall of their home. “A nearby military unit had used the wall for sniper practice,” Lana explains.