Two IDPs girls continue their education despite moving from one camp to another
Ein-Issa – North-Press Agency
Zana al-Ali
"Every day after school, I clean my tent and bring water, so I can meet with my friends and play Alsakla, (a popular game in the region), but I still miss my house and my neighborhood,” Loreen Mohammed narrated the story of her displacement to Mahmudli camp, near the town of Tabqa, west of Raqqa countryside.
Loreen, a displaced girl from the town of Maskanah in the eastern countryside of Aleppo who has been moving for one area to another, as a result of the attacks by the Turkish military and its affiliated armed opposition groups on northern Syria, to settle in the camp at the end. She told North-Press: "I love to study and I was jealous of my older sister because she went to school, while my father did not let me go because of my young age”. Loreen continued: "After the Russian and Syrian aerial bombardment on Maskanah, we fled from place to place, until we settled in Ein-Issa camp, then I started to go to school."
"After we settled in the camp, I started to go to school, and I was one of the first students in my class, until the last war started in Ein Issa and I was dropped out of the school again," she said. Loreen expressed her fear of the Islamic State (ISIS) women in the camp of Ein Issa, especially when the shelling of the Turkish forces and its affiliated armed groups started.
The civilian camp was in contact with the camp of ISIS detained women, the girl said: "When ISIS came, we were scared especially after a tent was burned and there were children inside, and they barely helped them, but the hospital staff had left". Loreen said that even the camp director left, while they were hoping to secure them. She added that after the Turkish war-planes bombed the camp, they did not find a place to take refuge, so they had to take shelter in the baths.
While Hala Khalaf, Loreen’s friend said that she met her in Ein Issa camp and became friends; they went to school together, but they could not go in the last week because of the current situation. Hala said that after moving to Mahmudli camp, she was so lonely until she met Loreen again.
It is noteworthy that the displaced people living in Mahmudli camp in the town of Tabqa, west of Raqqa suffer from the absence of a number of basic services, such as the lack of a school and a commercial market, in addition to the lack of tents. Al-Mahmudli camp was equipped several months ago to receive IDPs residing in the random camp of Tuwaihina, near the Euphrates River. The camp has a number of medical points of the international organizations and local associations; however, it still lacks many essential life services.