was clear that she only guessed that, however, we did not insist on the question; Since we met her while she was busy cleaning her kitchen utensils, it was painful to see her sitting on that little stone, her thin palm scratching the surfaces of the pots soiled with food debris and the smoke of the stove. Jannat came from Hodeidah to the camp when she was no more than six years old, so she certainly skilled this hard domestic work during the four years she spent inside it.
In the camps for the displaced, families need abundant quantities of water, and in order to provide it, women, including children, travel a long distance, on this arduous journey, she always accompanied her mother’s gardens and came back with a heavy bear over her head, yet it seems that she also no longer rejoices in the rain.
“The tents are fragile. If it rains, water enters them from everywhere. Always my mother and I try to close the holes and openings that leak water through with clothes and plastic bags, but it is useless, because everything gets stained with mud.”
When we asked her about life in the camp, she replied: “The most miserable life” She raised a strand of her hair on the back of her wet palm, then picked up a copper bowl to clean.
The life of the child Jannat is not isolated from the rest of the family, of course, but it is probably similar to the life of her older brother, just as he was forced to give up his last year at the University of Hodeidah, so she also no longer goes to the nearby school after its closure due to the Corona pandemic, and the same is true for the children in The camp, although she is better than them, as she continues to receive some lessons from her educated parents, and if their wish matches her wish to return to live between concrete walls rather than cloth, then she precedes everyone with a dream to become a lawyer in the future!
