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Yasmeen's story
"I dream about going back to school and not working anymore." Like thousands of unaccompanied Syrian refugee children in Lebanon, 14-year-old Yasmeen and her younger brother must work to pay for rent and food, while living in appalling conditions at a shelter for refugees. Yasmeen says "I wake up at 4 a.m. and work for 10 hours for US$6.60. I come back and do domestic work, cook until sunset and then I go to sleep. Look at my hands from all the work, they are as rough as rocks, my back aches. I have been here for three years, but it feels like one long day. You have to work, you have to survive and you have to pay rent. Is this a life worth living?"