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Ryad Alsous | How Bees Changed My Life As A Refugee

Ryad Alsous had to leave his 500 beehives behind when he fled Syria over fears for his safety as civil war descended under the hand of President Assad. Now, relocated in Huddersfield, Ryad has been able to gain a new lease of life with a beehive gifted to him and is now giving to refugees a token of hope by teaching them to have their own beehives, building the colonies of Britain’s black bees.
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War Is No Place For A Child To Grow Up

Seven years, to the day, since the Syrian civil war began, Damascus is barely recognisable
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Syrian Mother-Of-Three Tells How She Boils Water To Stop Her Children Begging For Food

'We fled our home under heavy shelling carrying nothing but the clothes on our backs'.
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