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Ali Haj Suleiman

Burning trash to stay warm, displaced Syrians struggle to survive winter

Wadha al-Yousef, 36, burns what scraps she can find to keep her five children warm in the family's tent at Kafr Yahmul camp in northwestern Syria [Ali Haj Suleiman/Al Jazeera]

Kafr Yahmul, Syria – As winter sets in, the inhabitants of an informal camp just north of the city of Idlib are bracing themselves for the months ahead.

Fateem al-Yousef watched the sky anxiously as clouds gathered and she thought about what she and her family will be facing once the rains start. “I am afraid that water will seep into the tent and that my children will get sick,” she told Al Jazeera.

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