For three years, Fadi Katamesh stayed behind in Syria to try to keep his hometown from collapsing and his people safe, even as bombs rained around his city each day. But as the war grew worse, he was was forced to flee with his family and leave behind a place he cared for. Here's his story.
When we met Fadi Katamesh, he was sitting on a white plastic chair, admiring his freshly plotted plants neatly arranged outside his cottage home on the Greek island of Lesbos. As the 33-year-old Syrian refugee from Damascus began to tell us about the atrocities he witnessed during the country’s ongoing war, he kept his eyes on his garden, which clearly brought him ease.