No place for foreign workers being displaced in Lebanon
Al Jazeera
Some of them were born and raised in Lebanon, but in war they have no place in the authorities’ support programmes.
Beirut, Lebanon – Over the last 11 months, as air raids hit villages near their home, Lakmani and her mother Sonia decided to stay in their south Lebanese village of Jouaiya, about a 25-minute drive east of Tyre and a little under an hour from the southern border.
“There were some raids not far away,” Lakmani, 26, said.
“And they broke the sound barrier a few times,” her 45-year-old mother Sonia added.
Sonia came from Sri Lanka to Lebanon to work as a cleaner shortly before giving birth to Lakmani, who has lived her whole life in Lebanon and works as a private tutor.
“But then Monday bombs started falling and we said: ‘OK, we should go,’” Lakmani told Al Jazeera, sitting on a park bench in downtown Beirut, where she and her mother now sleep.
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