This is what displaced people do to improve their life in tents!

SHARIF AL-ABO/ MANBIJ

Having taken shelter under these tents, they have become a reality where no different solution looms in the near future. It was the same for the displaced people living in the camp of Manbij who had been living in the camp southeast of the city for two years.

The camp consists of two sections, the first section includes 340 tents, the second section contains 445 tents, and the number of displaced people in these tents in both sections exceeds 5 thousand and 600 displaced.

The number of displaced people is more than what it is now, but after the Syrian Democratic Forces liberated the areas of al-Tabqa and al-Raqqa and parts of the countryside of Deir ez-Zor, the residents returned to their areas leaving behind those who remain in the camps of displaced Syrian territory occupied by Turkey or controlled by the Syrian regime.

Most of the displaced are from the areas under the control of the Syrian regime Miskana and Deir Hafer, this enforced the displaced in the camps of Manbij to remain in a secure land similar to other areas.

But living under a tent means torture, especially as the displaced are tired of appealing to the organizations. The voice of the displaced is no longer heard, but the only way to find ways to make the tent a little satisfactory.

There are many ways to amend the tents. Some covered the span between the tents with sand and soft gravel to avoid the mud in winter.

Displaced people had to polish the floor in front of the tent door with sand and cement to reduce soil erosion as the soil drifted in front of the tent, allowing running water from rain to enter the tent and the way to stabilize the soil beside drilling streams of water to keep the water away from its edges.

Some have set up a small clay dome near or inside the tent to put inside a kerosene cooking stove.

Yesra al-Shalabi, one of the displaced, said "We built it from mud to prevent the burning of the tent "If we burn, we will lose it and lose our clothes inside it, which is all we have."

Displaced people invest the narrow distances between the tents by planting them with greenery, and who could not secure an area, they plant in baskets of cork, to insure themselves fresh vegetables planted on the edge of their tents and water that may slip into their beds inside the tent and wet them.

It is no longer a question for the displaced how long will this last? but rather, how can I better this?

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ANHA