Syria: With help, family rebuilds home amid the ruins of Homs

Syria: When Abdul Kader first returned to the ruins of his home in Homs’ Khalidiya neighbourhood after five years of displacement, the scale of the destruction left him numb. “At first I didn’t react at all. I was in shock. I went in for five or ten minutes, then left. I just couldn’t stand it,” he said.

After a couple of weeks, the softly spoken former Arabic teacher found the strength to return. Working alone in the rubble of his house and the flattened neighbourhood beyond, he slowly began to clear the debris and fill the gaping holes in the walls left by years of shelling.
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