This photo story documents the experiences of Syrian adolescents in Lebanon, shedding light in particular on their psychosocial wellbeing, in the wake of the severe Lebanese economic crisis.
Ivona is a 17-year-old Palestinian girl in Lebanon who dropped out of school during the COVID-19 shutdown, but is now enrolled in a vocational training programme to become a nurse.
In these photo stories, adolescents and youth participating in the GAGE research in Lebanon reflect on gender inequality within refugee and host communities, and the ways that these intersect with socioeconomic inequality.
In the fifth and final episode of this series, we explore how young refugees cope when multiple problems or sets of needs collide – or intersectionality.
In episode two, we focus on this crisis of education, and compare the plight of young refugees who have fled from their homes in Myanmar and Syria, and settled in Bangladesh and Jordan.
Rohingya refugees and Bangladeshi adolescents report being impoverished due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with girls experiencing the impact more intensely.
Sarah Baird, Mohammed Masudur Rahman, Jennifer Seager