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21/11/2012 - Issam Abdallah/IRIN]
21.11.2012. Winter is approaching fast for
Syrian refugees in Lebanon, who are facing night-time temperatures that
regularly dip below zero.
Lana, 21, from the suburbs of Damascus,
worries about her three-month-old baby.
She fled Syria when the child was 10 days
old, afraid for her daughter’s security when her home city started to be bombed.
She has been living for the past two months in Taalabaya in Lebanon’s Bekaa
valley region.
"I don't know how things will be in
the winter for my baby, it's getting colder and colder," she said.
She
had been three times to the Caritas centre in the town looking for assistance
but has not yet received a blanket or heater.
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