RECONSTRUCTION_LIFE BEFORE_
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We often see images of peoples homes post crisis, but after speaking with Hazem I was able to reconstruct his home pre crisis, so that people might be able to see refugees as people with lives not to dissimilar to their own. What does your home look like?
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'Home is like the mother that gives you everything you need without asking anything back' - Hazem, Syrian refugee.
What does your home mean to you?
Descriptions from Hazem and Ahmed
1. My house was 120msq
2. The walls were white
3. There were 4 rooms downstairs
4. There was a corridor, then my room which I shared with my brother, my parents room
5. Then a living room and a guest room
6. We didn't have a sofa, we used rugs and cushions
7. I used to watch TV every Thursday night with my family, it was a simple life
8. We had trees outside
9. And a veranda
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After speaking with Hazem, I was able to recreate his home based on the description and details given. This, along with Ahmed accounts, enabled me to recreate not only Hazems home, but a typical home from Syria. In turn, this allows viewers a more in depth look into life before the crisis, showing people that refugees are more than a statistic; but a person who had a life not too dissimilar from their own.
Transcript Hazem