In Lebanon, 1 million Syrian refugees live on $1 a day

CS monitor

When Syrian Miriam Abdulkader lit herself on fire in front of a United Nations building in Tripoli last week, she says the only thing on her mind was feeding her four children.

Since fleeing the Syrian city of Homs two years ago, she has lived with her family in an abandoned house in Tripoli in northern Lebanon. For the first year, her family received UN assistance, including $30 per family member in food vouchers, but in the fall that help was cut off.

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