Syrian refugees in Lebanon: 'People are desperately in need of some little bit of help'

Abdel Jalil Al Sharif, with his daughters Mariam, Nada and Shahed at their rented flat in Beirut, Lebanon, where he and his family live. Picture: Neil Michael

When Abdel Jalil Al Sharif was interviewed by the Irish Examiner last May, he spoke of the despair of existing rather than living.

At the time, the father-of-five, who fled to Lebanon after his house in Aleppo in Syria was blown up during the war in 2015, was living in a small apartment in Beirut.