The Syrian Observatory For Human Rights

(A.H.) An elderly woman lives alone in one of rural Idlib’s random camps

As the number of displaced people in the north of Idlib province is increasing, their living becomes more difficult and their conditions deteriorate day after the other, the most prominent examples of that is (A.H.), she is in her eighties and one of the thousands of the elderly displaced people, who are witnessing difficulties of living in displacement camps and suffering from the loss of many of their needs and supplies, she lives in a single tent on the outskirts of al-Sheikh Bahr village in the northern countryside of Idlib, and she has completely lost her sight as she became older, her weak body does not help her to walk more than few meters beyond the limits of her tent and some other nearby tents, she moved away from her town, Kafr Nabudah, in the northern countryside of Hama since the beginning of the escalation operations, and she headed towards the north of Syria.

According to her testimony to the “Syrian Observatory”, her children abandoned her and now she lives alone and gets help from the neighbors in the camp, who secure her daily needs, while some children in the adjacent tents help her to move and do some work inside her small tent, which lacks many supplies, heating materials, and insulations that help to keep the cold away, also the camp where she lives in needs its roads to be repaired and securing drinking water.