Daily Life in Damascus

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“Lets not lose heart in the midst of whatever trials and troubles we may have, one doesn’t have to look far to find those in much worse circumstances than ours but they persevere and so can we.” Admin

Hanna (not her real name) is a Christian woman living in Damascus, Syria, with her husband. Hanna and her husband have two young daughters. Hanna works in a school.  Over the last few months she has been describing what daily life is like in war-torn Damascus.

The situation keeps getting worse and the war is coming closer and closer. It has been a terrible week for the schools in the Christian area I live in.

Last Monday it was around noon when my husband and I went out from the school to go home. We heard more mortars than usual. While we were walking the streets, we saw a crowd approaching.

When it came closer we saw it was a crowd of running and crying fathers and mothers on their way to the school where they children are students.  I learned that a mortar had fallen on one of the classrooms of that Christian school. We started running to our home because we didn’t feel safe.

Read More  Daily Life in Damascus.