The household consists of 10 people: Mariam and her two sons, who are in military service. Her third son, who is married but unfortunately injured in the war, and his wife and their little boy also live with her in the apartment. Four years ago, Mariam's married daughter and her family were displaced from their home by local fighting and moved into her mother's apartment with her husband and their two young boys.
As a result, the apartment is crowded with 10 people, but this is not a rare sight in war-torn Syria. Before the war began in 2011, the family's situation was otherwise good and they were middle class. But early in the war, Mariam's husband was killed. The family lost not only a husband and the children's father, but also their breadwinner. Mariam and her four children, who were not married at the time, did not have enough income and her three sons had to serve their military service.
As a mother, Mariam tried hard to earn an income. Now she has serious health problems, problems with her spine, eyes and suffers from high blood pressure. Living in war-torn Aleppo, the family has few sources of income, so the only income the 10 of them have now is the income of her war-injured son and her son-in-law's work.
With no relatives in Europe to send them money, the family urgently needs to receive regular bags of food from the local Christian relief team, which is supported by Danish European Mission's improvers and donors.
Mariam recently told the relief team: "Without these monthly bags of food, we wouldn't know how to survive. Your help makes a difference in our family's life. Thank you so much for what you have so faithfully done for us."
The relief team and a priest regularly visit the family to provide moral and spiritual support, as it is not easy to live in such cramped conditions in the center of Aleppo, often without electricity, without air conditioning in summer and without heating in the cold winter like now.
Thank you so much for your support.
