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## [Alea's Story](https://blog.tearfund.ie/aleasstory)

 By [Tearfund Ireland](https://blog.tearfund.ie/author/tearfund-ireland)

For Alea’s family in northern Syria, their cotton farm provided for all their needs. ‘We were in heaven in Syria,’ she says. She stayed as long as she could after the bombing began in 2011. The family would hide in the space between the wall and the fridge when they heard planes overhead. Alea was pregnant and frightened, but when her children began begging her for bread she knew it was time to run.

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