Nahr Eisheh

Life in this poor neighborhood in the suburbs of Damascus, Syria, is getting more and more tough for the inhabitants as a result of galloping inflation. Like many other Syrian neighborhoods these days, all essential services, from drinking water, to sewage, electrical supply and garbage collection are poorly managed by local authorities, and inhabitants have no where to turn but to God and wishful thinking, it seems. The narrator in this short clip, one of the inhabitant hit particularly by the current conditions beseech the journalists to write more often about the living conditions of the country in their daily columns, and mourn the death of "honor" among many men who can no longer dare ask their wives how they manage to keep the household running, despite lack of funds. A "don't ask, don't tell policy" seems like the best option to many to cope with visible rise of prostitution in the neighborhood.

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Nonprofits & Activism

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• Syria
• Damascus
• Poverty
• Grassroots Outreach
• Activism
• Dissent
• Democracy
• Middle East
• Peace
• Human Rights